On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Understood. But what features do most people really use? Is it just > presence and IM (and possibly groupchat), or do most people also require > the ability for file transfers, voice calls, emoticons (etc.) to go > across the bridge between Jabber and MSN? > - IM and presense are critical - Groupchat is pretty important in a business environment - FT is important for sending a quick picture (or screenshot of a bug/crash) - Voice calls are a nice to have, but we don't have a stable+implemented XEP yet - Emoticons would be a real croud pleaser, but they're 100% eye candy > And perhaps those who really do need the complete feature set could step > up to the plate and help fund work on the transports? Not everything > needs to happen through the XSF or the Google Summer of Code. > Agreed, at the moment the various transports only have maintainers (not new-feature-implementers). I think all of us find that we'd love to spend time on them, but due to other commitments (including those that end up earning us cold-hard-cash), we just haven't had time or motivation to donate to the transports. If people want to see new features, then start collecting up some cash - if you can get enough together, then there's bound to be a developer out there that will bite. (This worked for the python MySpaceIM transport -- to be released as GPL in about July) -- - Norman Rasmussen - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/
