[Gossip-dev] want to contribute

[Martyn Russell]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 12:04 -1000, Jimen Ching wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to Gossip.  I've just grabbed the cvs trunk and built gossip.
> I have a few questions about gossip development.
> 
> 1.  Is there a place where I can see development status?  I visited the
> web site, but there's not much available in terms of status.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi

If you select the "Gossip" product, you will see bugs outstanding.

> 2.  Does the gossip developers use other means of communication besides
> this mailing list?  I.e. irc, etc...

Not really, but we are available in #imendio on gimpnet if you want to
talk to us on IRC.

> 3.  How are patches submitted?

Usually they are attached to a bug in bugzilla.

> And finally, I'm interested in the voice chat feature of Jabber (I believe
> it's called Jingle).  Is anyone working on that?  

Not that I know of.

> What are the plans for
> voice and video support in Gossip?

Well, we have plans to work on a Telepathy branch for Gossip which
should include support for this.

A little work has started on this by Eitan.

I don't know how much work it is to get VoIP support working with Jingle
and the JEP (http://www.jabber.org/jeps/)

Is it just http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0183.html ?

There is nothing stopping you from writing a patch for Gossip to add
support for this in the mean time (while we work on Telepathy
integration).

If you want to work on something easier than Jingle support in Gossip,
let me know and I will find a bug for you that shouldn't be too taxing.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn