Ethan Blanton

(a.k.a. elb)

Ethan has been working on Pidgin since 2002, and got started by "scratching an itch" related to character encodings. He is the author of the IRC plugin, the Tcl loader plugin, and still puts a hand in on i18n issues from time to time. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Purdue University working in the area of Internetworking.

My Pidgin web page and Pidgin development blog may be of some interest.

Thanks to wabz for figuring out the photo business, so you can all see my beautiful mug.

Contact

• IRC: elb on irc.freenode.net
• Jabber: elb@pidgin.im

Plugins

• PurpleCommander: a Tcl "shell" for libpurple clients.

Open Tickets assigned to elb:

#264

More right click options for nickname lists on channels on IRC

#767

Error reading blist.xml

#951

IRC commands not working

#1425

No ability to resume in IRC file transfers

#1559

IRC contacts don't change status to away

#1645

ICQ Encoding Problems

#1805

Silc whiteboard spams users with dialog boxes.

#2251

SILC stops working after network reconnect

#2715

Enhance usability of silc private group chat

#3149

Friendly name with RTL characters do not display properly

#3348

Display channel modes

#4753

IRC messages silently truncated to first ~500 characters

#4760

Remember ignores for IRC

#4762

IRC shows connected after failing to connect

#5277

IRC encoding per channel

#5553

Failure to initiate dbus connection (pidgin steals SIGCHLD from dbus)

#5807

User's who are SOP on IRC do not have an icon next to their name.

#5931

/join does not open chat window when persistent is enabled

#6144

When paste from clipboard, message is alwais sent in utf-8 regardless to account's settings

#6440

Oper Support

#6720

irc crash after cancelling dcc

#7298

buddy status (online/offline) not updated

#7433

need support for several servers, and hopefully for creatig accounts on the fly

#7438

Freenode (IRC) WHOIS output will be changing

#7486

xdcc download-resuming-support

#7672

long messages in IRC silently dissapear

#7902

The sighandler() function in pidgin/gtkmain.c doesn't restore a SIGALRM handler.

#8770

Jump to invalid address in tcl plugin

#8828

pidgin can't connect to SSL IRC server with authentication enabled without saved passwords

#8926

Pidgin 2.5.5 (WinXP) not refreshing silc buddies correctly

#8947

SILC commands missing

#8951

feature-request: default irc-realname other than "purple"

#8972

Support multiple IRC servers on same host

#9246

Additional information on IRC /whois

#9287

Best features for /list command

#9490

+a IRC Not reconized.

#9567

IRC colors not working

#9670

Part/disconnect does not remove you from channel

#9692

Pidgin sends IRC ISON messages > 512 bytes

#9722

IRC ranks

#9820

Emtpy chan for irc

#10066

Passive DCC

#10079

Nick completion doesn't work if someone has voice and op status in a channel

#10147

SIGFPE/SIGSEGV on SILC reconnect

#10197

SILC connect server is defaulted and it isn't clear that it needs to be changed when the network changes

#10458

IRC topic query -no date info returned

#10690

Protected ops don't show on IRC user list

#11089

connecting to irc floods irc server

#11111

CTCP reply flood

#11205

IRC: /names command doesn't work for non-joined channels

#11255

Pidgin opens identical second tab if server sends JOIN without PART first.

#11263

Colours not shown on IRC topics or hostnames

#11278

new freenode ssl certificate

#11294

/ignore: invalid command

#11299

Notices on IRC

#11348

Display of PRIVMSG/NOTICE addressed to $$server, $#hostmask

#11349

Display of server (status) messages

#11415

IRC op/voice status no longer displayed for channels with many users?

#11483

Option to change IRC nickname automatically on Away

#11568

SSL handshake failure on reconnect of IRC over SSL

#11618

Add DCC CHAT support for IRC connections

#11700

IRC contacts appearing offline when they are online.

#11726

Excess Flood on reconnect

#12224

IRC command "/names #channel" should not require the given channel to be joined and results should pop up in an new window

#12239

Option for connecting to an IRC core client on a server

#12263

"User already on the channel" error when reconnecting to SILC server

#12303

Away message for IRC is shown every message instead of once

#12342

Can't connect to freenode

#12358

segmentation fault upon joining channel of empty name

#12470

List IP Addresses in whois on IRC

#12486

[IRC] Pidgin shouldn't highlight on nickname inclusion in topic messages

#12562

Pidgin IRC does not handle SSL blocks of > IRC_INITIAL_BUFSIZE correctly