London XMPP Sprint Review

From Friday 6th November to Sunday 8th November, eight XMPP community members meet for London XMPP Sprint in Greenwich.

For more information about the sprint see the wiki.

Monal IM

Matthew Fennell and Thilo Molitor worked on improving the Monal internals and made progress on chatview.

Conversations

Daniel Gultsch implemented Oauth within Conversations with help from Matthew Wild.

Dino

Fixah worked on message style parsing within Dino.

Marvin Wißfeld worked on fixing multiple bugs within [Dino]https://dino.im/)’s file transfer feature, with Karel Balej helping with debugging the bugs.

BSD Compatibility

Polarian worked on porting the latest version of Gajim to FreeBSD. Unfortunately being beaten by another user to submitting the patch, and worked on updating Gajim dependencies within FreeBSD. Polarian also worked on improving his build server to beable to port more XMPP software to BSD in the future.

Discussions

• HTTP file upload deletion, which resulted in a PR being submitted.
• Oauth implementation details, this was mainly discussed between Daniel and Matthew Wild during the implementation of Oauth for Conversations.
• Spaces implementation details, concerns were raised about spaces impersonating existing MUCs.
• Permission synchronisation between MUCs.

Thanks to

• Matthew Fennell for organising the sprint, handling the communications with the venue, and funding the sprint.
• Polarian co-hosting the event, handling the outreach, writing the majority of the wiki and writing the blogposts for the event.