Releasing Loudmouth and Mexico Pictures
I’ve been very quite lately, but I’ve slowely started to get some hacking on the projects I maintain happening again which is great, let’s hope it lasts. Also been working on a new web page for our open source projects that are being run by employees at Imendio. It will be announced shortly.
Upcoming Loudmouth release
As the title says I’m planning to do a release of Loudmouth soon, this will be 1.0. There are still a bunch of features that I would like to get in but hey, that’s why you have version numbers after 1.0 too. If you know of applications using Loudmouth, don’t hesitate to let me know since I’m putting together a list of users of the library.
After the release I plan to start looking into what will be in version two. The most important thing will be full XMPP support with TLS/SASL security. I’m also looking into adding a higher level layer for usual operations (like requesting the roster, sending a message, subscribing to someones presence and such).
Status of Gossip
So what’s going on in Gossip? To tell the truth I haven’t had much time and was a bit tired of the project after doing my major refactoring of the source code before Christmas. The good thing is that with increasing number of Imendians my needs in Gossip increases too so I will be forced to fix a bunch of things.
With Martyn on vacation in New Zealand the project has been very quite the last couple of weeks but I hope that we will be able to start moving forward soon. Sweden is also coming out of the dark winter which usually leads to more hacking energy.
Pictures from Mexico
Finally got around to put Mexico photos online. Been lying on my hard disk for quite some while now. I really lack good tools for managing photos. Waiting with anticipation on F-Spot, starting to look really promising.
I’ve written a Jabber bot called Botherbot using glib & Loudmouth (which rocks btw, good to hear that you’re adding TLS/SASL). It’s a simple reminder bot, you send it messages like “Bother me in 10 minutes to go downtown” or “Bother someone@jabber.org in 3 hours to make me breakfast” and it will do so. You can also send it “status” and it will list your pending bothers, and you can delete them if you want.
Currently I’m looking into adding IPC so that I can do fun stuff like have a Subversion hook send Jabber alerts on commits, or make Botherbot yell at a developer when our test framework finds some errors.
There is no public release of Botherbot yet, but the basic functionality is stable. Mail me if you’d like a copy - it’s only around 500 lines atm.