Am 04.04.2010 02:17, schrieb Mark Doliner:
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Ali Albazaz<m...@melixer.de> wrote:
Hey!
My Name is Ali Albazaz, 20. I Study Computer Science in Bonn, Germany,
second semester.
When I was 16 I was involved in the gaim project the first time. There I
fixed some small
bugs with the help of Sean Egan and thats the reason why my name is still
available in the
Copyright file.
Now I'm going to apply for the Google Sommer of Code Program and support
pidgin project.
I'm using pidgin now for 7 years mostly for ICQ everyday (because ICQ is
very popular in
my region). Therefore I know about many feautures that the Original ICQ
Client supports
and the Pidgin ICQ-Implementation doesn't.
Last week I started a survey (with 129 persons) to see which things are most
important to
the people and have to be implemented first. Here are their suggestions
ordered by popularity:
- About every 4th person complained about the file transfer problem between
other clients.
- Many people want the old "block" function back because in the past it
people got blocked
couldn't see one online but were able to write one. The new function is
useful but removing the
old function is wrong. The people need both of the functions.
- Webcam and voice chat should be implemented
- Flash games
- Authorization problems: after the authorization sometimes the people are
two times in my list and if I remove one of them they both disapear
- Status-Messages doesn't work between other clients
- Invisible status doesn't work sometimes
The other suggestions are good but not so popular like these mentioned
above. Therefore I picked out these themes:
Filetransfer, block-function, Autorization, Status Messages and if there is
time the invisible status.
I want to fix this things between May 24th and August 9th - that means in 11
Weeks.
Maybe you have some instructions or hints to me? Are there things that are
something like undevelopable in 11 weeks? :-D
I would be glad! :-)
I think that's a great list, and definitely feasible in 11 weeks. You
could possible add more to it, but I'm not sure what. Maybe better
handling of character encoding for offline messages.
Also, you may want to look at last summer's privacy improvement
project: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2009/PrivacyRewrite It
hoped to improve the usability of blocking vs. invisibility for ICQ.
--Mark
Are you sure I should add more to the list? I mean I have other good
ideas from the survey but I'm also a student and have to study in that
time and learn a bit at home... ;-)
When they take me I have about one month time to read some code and to
settle in. But I've no idea how complex the oscar part is built. Maybe I
add more Ideas to the "If there is time I'll do" list.
Other popular things are:
- The profile picture is smaller than in ICQ
- Text styling (Bold, Italic, Font-Size...)
- While searching numbers in the history it shouldn't search in time-stamps
- Filter for Bots wanting authorization (Spam filter)
Can anyone tell me what things goolge is expecting? I really want to do
this job but don't know how to have the best application :-\
--
Ali Albazaz
Am Jesuitenhof 3 / 963
53117 Bonn
Mobile: (+49) 170 8647236
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