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Personal

My name is Marcus Lundblad. I live in Uppsala, Sweden.
In the daytime I make my living as a software engineer.

Contact

  • XMPP: mlundblad@…
  • MSN: ml@…
  • ICQ: 11604698

Projects and Ideas

Here are some Pidgin-related projects/ideas I have.

  • Emoticon support
    • Add support for using "custom smileys" on XMPP using XEP-0231 (bits of binary)
    • A persistent emoticon cache would be nice
    • Add support for protocol-specific emoticon constraints (dimensions, file size, mime types...)
  • Voice and Video
    • ...
  • Multi-user Chats
    • Support unnamed chats
      • Ability to add contacts to an existing two-person conversation to turn it into a chat
      • Support "temporary MUC" for XMPP, generating a room name and use it as an "unnamed chat"
  • XMPP
    • In-band bytestream support for file transfers
    • Attentions (similar to MSN nudge/Yahoo buzz)
    • Jingle file transfers
    • Support idle times in presence
    • Support external service discovery (extdisco, XEP-0215) to autoconfigure TURN relays (for voice and video) and Socks5 bytestream proxies (for file transfers).
    • ...
  • Pidgin
    • Attention UI
    • Smiley themes based on JISP-like (XEP-0038) format

Open Tickets Assigned to Me

Patches welcome milestone tickets:

#1507
Support Google Talk file transfer method

milestone tickets:

#7380
Hide New IM Conversations setting doesn't work
#8524
Uses the wrong jid when sending/receiving files to MUC participants
#8623
Support Jingle file transfers (XEP-0234) on XMPP
#9476
Add support for file transfer thumbnails for XMPP
#9830
pidgin registers the wrong IP in UPnP router when client is multihomed
#11707
Pidgin does not close TCP ports on router when file transfer is failed
#13414
[IBB] Pidgin closes the bytestream before acknowledging the last stanza
#14430
IBB receiver reads struct after free (at completion of transfer)
#15120
Contacts using GTalk on Android don't show up as capable of audio/video.

Other tickets related to me

Patches Needing Improvement milestone tickets:

#10056
Add ability to insert image in XMPP IM

milestone tickets:

#3279
purple_conv_custom_smiley_add fails to properly add the image if remote is FALSE
#11704
Problem with In-band file transfer with some jabber clients
#12829
Smileys with asterisk don't show because they are damaged in gtalk

milestone tickets:

#8623
Support Jingle file transfers (XEP-0234) on XMPP
#9476
Add support for file transfer thumbnails for XMPP
#11582
Icons for XMPP moods
#15120
Contacts using GTalk on Android don't show up as capable of audio/video.

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