GSOC Pidging Ideas

[Jorge Villaseñor]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Sanjeed Schamnad <sanjeed063 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
> My name is Sanjeed Schamnad. I am a fourth year CSE undergraduate student
> from India (College: BITS-Pilani). I would partake under the Google summer
> of code-2015 program working under your organization.
>

Hi Sanjeed, welcome.


> I've gone through the Project ideas provided by Pidgin and am interested
> in two particular ideas:
> 1)Android "proxy" client
> 2) Removing code duplication from the pidgin code database
>
> I have completed courses on Computer networks which has given me a strong
> foundation in how proxy clients work and how to implement them. I have done
> courses in Datastructures and Algorithms and on Design and analysis of
> algorithms which involved considerable debugging and optimization of code.
>
> Given this skill set, I think I would be a good candidate for these
> projects. I have a few other ideas for Pidgin and would like to know the
> validity of these ideas as GSOC projects:
>
> All these ideas are from a user point of view. These are the
> problems/glitches I faced while using pidgin
> 1) If I copy paste some formatted text and send the message, instead of
> resetting formatting by default, the previous messages format is still
> available.
> It might be good idea to both reset formatting after each message (with an
> option to not-reset in settings) and have an easy way to paste without
> formatting (just middle click instead of menu item).
>
> A suggestion to solve this issue is to make middle-click paste without
> formatting on X11 systems, and leave as it is for other systems. This
> could be a reasonable default.
>
> 2) When you are able to see other's JID, and request info from
> conference, it's requested from real JID instead of conference jid, but
> real server do not always give info away for people who are not in contact
> list. So there is no way to request info from
> example at conference.xmpp.server/UserName instead of
> username at jabber.example .
>
> Server won't send data if you are not in user contact list if you ask
> directly, but it will if you ask via conference jid (and you are present
> in the conference)
>
> There should be the provision to route the request to the conference
> server by default like it was in older versions. But we might still want
> to request info from real jid though, as there is no other option to
> determine if you missed enter message.
> It might be a good idea to show real jid as field in info if pidgin knows
> it; maybe make two menu items, request user info and request real jid
> info. With second only active when conference settings allow you to see it 3)
> We cannot ban whole servers still. "*/ban server.com <http://server.com>*"
> would return an error even though it's valid ban if you send it via XMPP
> console
> 4) We cannot ban a user with a space in his name. F*or users without
> spaces "/ban username" would work *but for a user with a space in his
> nick, this command won't work. We need to type "*/ban real at jid*".
>
> These are the preliminary problems which me and my friends have faced by
> extensively using pidgin. As an avid user of pidgin I would love to work
> under the mentorship of your organization and help in making pidgin better.
>
> I would request your help in going about drafting the proposal for
> GSOC-2015
>
> Thanking you
>
>
It looks like you have some ideas to improve the xmpp protocol, which is
nice. You just need to make sure that the improvements will be enough to
justify a whole summer of work.

Try to take that into account when you start writing your application.

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