[jdev] questions about gsoc: file transfer over jingle

[bear]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:47, bear <bear42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> at the risk of being labeled a "top poster" by the others ... ;)
>
> Hi!
>
> I hope your interested in letting the XSF host your GSoC project.  If
> so, then we need to add it to the Project Ideas wiki page at
> http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summer_of_Code_2010_Project_Ideas  so that we
> can find a mentor for the project and also so that you can get the
> information together for the GSoC council to vote on your project.

and it would seem I have mis-spoken in my first email as GSoC admin ;)

The project page is where XSF members list what projects they would
like to consider - not GSoC Student candidates - doh!

So after you get some discussion going with the devs about your
project, we can consider adding the project to that page.

Sorry for the spam/bad-info/noise


>
> If not, well I tried ;) -- but yea, you will find the folks to answer
> your question here.
>
> thanks!
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> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:02, Zhenchao Li <cockneykevin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, everyone!
>>     I'm a graduate student studying computer science and I've been exploring
>> both the XEPs concerning jingle file transfer and playing with the gajim
>> client's source code for the last 6 weeks. Since gajim already has the
>> ability to handle the jingle protocol and establish socks5 bytestream to
>> transfer file, implementing file transfer over jingle for gajim shouldnt' be
>> too difficult. There are just several things I don't quite understand and I
>> need your advice :
>>
>>   As far as I know the jingle protocol is kind of similar to the original
>> stream initiation(xep-0095) conceptually. Apart from jingle being a newer,
>> more general session negotiation protocol(general in the sense that there
>> are already video, voice calls applications built on jingle) and SI
>> practically being used only by SI file transfer(xep-0096), what are the
>> advantages that jingle has over SI? Surely there are already clients that
>> has support for jingle file transfer(pidgin, gtalk) so we definitely will
>> see more clients implementing this, but, is there anything extra that jingle
>> has brought us so we can improve the file transfer process? What's the
>> rationale behind implementing file transfer over jingle given SI file
>> transfer already works fine?
>>   Also I've talked to asterix about some extra features I want to implement
>> in gajim. The first one is channel encryption. The only protocol I find
>> relevant is XTLS, which says it has already expired here. So it seems there
>> will be no standard way to implement this feature, right? Is there any
>> possibility this "XEP" will become a draft someday? Or is there any standard
>> way to encrypt the channel in the XMPP stack? The second feature that I want
>> to implement is transferring multiple files in one shot. But it seems that
>> according to jingle file transfer the receiver has to accept file transfer
>> one by one anyway. So I'm considering archiving the files and then send it.
>> But this is not accepted by everybody. The main argument being the receiver
>> does not know he/she has to unzip the archive. What I think is that this is
>> rather more related to how the client reacts to events like drag and drop of
>> several files. If the user is notified that files will be archived before
>> they are sent, I don't think he/she will be confused. So, what's your
>> opinion? I'd like to hear it:-) . Another feature I want to implement is
>> jingle IBB transport method. This is according to XEPs a must but for some
>> reasons it is not in gajim. After implementing this feature failed file
>> transfer attempts should fall back on IBB file transfer.
>>   These are some initial thoughts. Comments, advices, suggestions are all
>> welcomed!
>>   I'm pursuing a master of science degree in Fudan University, China. I'm
>> comfortable with C, C++, perl. And I love Python and lisp! I have played
>> with the linux kernel, netsurf the web browser and some other open source
>> projects, been a heavy user of open source softwares. I really hope I can do
>> something this summer to further improve my skills and contribute to the
>> XMPP community. You can find me  as fantasticsid on irc, jabber.com, and
>> also the blog and email below.
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