[Gossip-dev] want to contribute

[Martyn Russell]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 23:03 -1000, Jimen Ching wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Martyn Russell wrote:
> >Well, we have plans to work on a Telepathy branch for Gossip which
> >should include support for this.
> 
> Where can I find this branch?  I already have a cvs checkout (trunk) from
> gnome.org.

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gossip/?only_with_tag=TELEPATHY

or 

cvs co -r TELEPATHY -d gossip-telepathy gossip

> >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 ?
> 
> I don't think so.  I know of at least two parts, establishing a session
> and the actual transfer of the voice data using RTP.
> 
> >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).
> 
> Well, if Telepathy is the future, I should just help on that branch...

That branch was recently merged with changes on HEAD. No actual work has
been done on it yet.

I did review Eitans work to some extent, it was more a proof of concept
than anything else. The design of how we integrate Telepathy is the
biggest obstacle at the moment.

The patch that Eitan created didn't work for me (at least I couldn't
sign in because of issues finding the session bus and I ran out of time
to debug it). So the review of that is still on going.

This patch is available in this thread:

http://lists.imendio.com/pipermail/gossip-dev/2006-August/008758.html

> >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.
> 
> Where can I find information about Telepathy?  Is there a design document
> or something?  ;-)

This is the main page:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Information about the Gossip work for Telepathy has been kindly put up
by Eitan here:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Gossip

:)

I am due to move house this weekend and perhaps over the course of the
next week, so I don't see much happening from my point of view, but I
will try to get Eitan's patch going ASAP.

Also, I have started using #gossip on gimpnet IRC. I will update the
developer pages so others know about it. 

If anyone wants to talk about Gossip, I should be in.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn