Re: CenterIM Update + Roadmap Proposal

Hi David,

On 01/03/07, David Riebenbauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yesterday I requested the creation of a project called CenterIM at
> Sourceforge. I hope that my request will be approved in the course of
> this week. That also means that the name under which our development of
> Centericq will continue will also be CenterIM.

That's great!

> I think a name change isn't so bad after all, because this project
> involves new people and will possibly go into a different direction than
> Konst would have taken it.

I agree with that. Also it underlines that we do not only support ICQ
as a protocol, but many many other protocols.

> I would like to thank Konst for all the effort he has put into
> developing Centericq. It is an excellent program and very worthy to
> continue it's development.

You have my thankfullness too, Konst. It's a great app, that's why
we're here talking about it!

> In the git repository there is a new branch called libgaim now. It
> contains some changes where I started experimenting with the use of
> libgaim in CenterIM. It doesn't do much yet. Essentially it breaks the
> account dialog and makes it display a list of the protocol plugins of
> libgaim.

I think that this is our best option, well done.

> And  here comes the roadmap proposal:
>
> 4.22.0
> ======
>
> The first release of CenterIM. This should be done soonish. Basically a release
> of the current git head as soon as the following points are solved.
> [...]

Agree

> 4.22.1 - 4.22.x
> ===============
>
> These should be released as the need arises, especially when important fixes
> become available. The points to focus on for these should be:
> [...]
> - Stabilization

Maybe into this point we can include a revisiting of all the build
process. For now we should just focus on "making it work", but after
that we need to update everything to the latest (stable) autoconf,
automake, etc. and clean everything.

> 4.23.0
> ======
> [...]

Ok for libgaim

I would definitely add this:
 - Fix visualizations with UTF-8

This doesn't mean UTF-8 support, but at least make it so that we can
display UTF-8 characters nicely. Maybe it could be possible to do that
with some iconv functions.

> 4.24.0
> ======
>
> Multiple accounts per protocol
> ------------------------------
> [...]

Agree

> 4.25.0
> ======
>
> UTF-8 support in the user interface
> -----------------------------------

This is one of the issues I care most about. It has some major
difficulties, though: if we are to introduce the use of wchar_t
instead of char, all the interfaces are going to change. So we need to
redesign the kkconsui and kkstrtext from scratch. Same functionality,
better code.

-- 
Stéphane
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