On Friday 15 January 2010 05:11:31 pm Martin wrote: > Hi, > > at first I want to introduce my first real c++ project: Openfire-Qt [0] > it's basically a Qt API for the Openfire-C library (see [1]) > > Openfire-C is a library which provides access to the xfire network [2] > as far as I know it's the only actively maintained xfire library out there > (note: there is a pidgin plugin called gfire: [3], [4]. it includes it's > own protocol handling code so I won't count that) > > in case you're wondering why I wrote this library: > I was looking for xfire support inside kopete. trying to add support 'the > hackish way' I found it's not very clean to combine a c library which uses > callbacks inside a c++/Qt application > that was the point where I started to write an abstraction layer which > provides access to Openfire-C's functions by using c++ and Qt. > > as I already stated this library is my first real c++/Qt project (I did a > small 100 lines of code project before -> that means I'm not very > experienced) nevertheless I tried to make the library as good as possible. > > my main problem at the moment is that I don't have a mentor. > at the beginning skyphyr (Alan) helped me out a lot (thanks again!) - but > he's been busy the last few weeks and he will be busy for the next few > weeks/months > > I would need two things right now: > a) I would need a mentor. there are places in my library where I can't use > a d-pointer for example. it's not easy to explain why - but having a > mentor which would at least know tiny bits of my code (so I don't have to > explain everything multiple times) would be great as it makes development > easier and more productive (the results are much better) > b) I would need someone who could review my current code. see the gitorious > project page: [0]. > Albert (TSDgeos) already did a quick (very quick ;)) review of my library > -> I fixed all problems he found (oh and thanks again to him for his nice > support) > > if you want to try out my library: > a minimal sample client (command-line based) is included in the 'test' > directory. if you have an xfire account you can log in there and receive > messages. > note: this "client" is very hackish... I just need it to test my code - > it's aim is to make it easier to test my code, not to provide a usable > client ;) > > now... I really hope at least one of you can help me, so kopete will be > able to support one more protocol. maybe someone out there would also > volunteer to write the kopete protocol plugin which will then use my > library? > > Regards, > Martin > > [0] http://gitorious.org/openfire-qt > [1] http://code.google.com/p/openfire-c/ > [2] http://www.xfire.com/ > [3] http://gfireproject.org/ > [4] http://my-trac.assembla.com/gfire/
I don't have any time to mentor anybody at the moment. If my time does free up at some point, then I'll contact you to see if you still need a mentor. I still encourage you to work on your code, and post questions to the list as you have them. While it may not be as effective as a single mentor, I'm sure you'll be able to learn a few things. :) -- Matt _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
