Progress on various Pidgin / libpurple features:

MSN support

^{Last updated 05/2008}

Past

Google SoC 2006 project on MSNP13 support: the first start on future MSN protocols support, was apparently never merged so it was not complete enough.

Google SoC 2007 project on MSNP14 support: UpdateMsnSupport, continuing from last summer. Did not produce completely problem-free functionality, but a base for what is now in Pidgin trunk and can be enabled by modifying configure.ac.

Current

A branch of Pidgin has been created for MSNP15 support. Remaining tickets for MSNP14 and MSNP15 are assigned to the "Activate MSNPV14" target in roadmap: ​remaining tickets

​msn-pecan is an actively developed alternative MSN protocol plugin.

Future

The remaining tickets linked to above represents a good estimation on the work left to be done to fix and activate current MSNP14/15 code.

Alternative choice would be merging msn-pecan. Since there have been a few disputes between other Pidgin developers and the msn-pecan developer, resulting in the msn-pecan in the first place, it's not clear that the merge would happen without someone's "social engineering" in-between.

Voice & Video

^{Last updated 05/2008}

Past

Earliest progess: ​gaim-vv. In 2005 it was stated that gaim-vv people were merging with the gaim proper (gaim is what pidgin was called before). However, this did not happen and the code bases are too different now without a big amount of work.

Could someone add some facts if gaim-vv people are still around or something?

Future

As part of Google's Summer of Code 2008, a voice and video project has been accepted. The plans are to first implement and stabilize voice and video on XMPP (making adding GTalk trivial) and then continuing onto the other protocols.