Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Misc news

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

> A new wiki has been put on http://wiki.seconix.com with info about GM
> NG.

Excellent. Is there going to be a page where people can add small
user/gui bits as suggestions/rfe etc so it can be tracked and not lost
in the list?
 
> I have spent much of my spare time on OPAL directly, and not on
> GnomeMeeting, which can explain that the UI is not "perfect" yet.

It still works pretty well :-)

> Here is a summary of my work on OPAL:
> - added call forwarding
> - added feedback and callbacks when registering/unregistering to SIP
> registrars (to know when it fails)
> - ability to register to several registrars
> - ability to specify a realm when registering to several registrars
> - fixed outbound proxy support
> - added support for MWI Subscriptions to know your number of voicemails
> (SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY SIP requests)
> - added support for the OPTIONS SIP request
> - fixed support for connection time
> - added support to determine the remote application name
> - fixed remote name and url reports
> - fixed session statistics reports for H.323
> - fixed DTMF sending with SIP
> - fixed interoperation with SwissVoice IP Phones
> - fixed silence detection
> - fixed media streams being started twice in some circumstances
> - removed the need to define OPALDIR
> - added make install/uninstall support
> - much more ...
> 
> All of this in the last 3 months of spare time + the porting of GM 1.2
> to use the new OPAL classes + the release of GM 1.2.1.

Wow, and being one of the organisers for FOSDEM as well.

> The good news is that Robert will soon be back from honey moon, and
> Craig will start working on OPAL too. So it will be faster to reach
> 2.00.
> 
> Next week, I will work on the following new features :
> - ability to transfer a call
> - ability to put a call on hold
> - ability to receive reinvites to redefine the session parameters (IP
> and ports)
> 
> When those last 3 features will have been added, then GnomeMeeting will
> be fully functional with Asterisk, with all possible features.
> 
> The following will have to be done before 2.00 too, but it will be done
> after, possibly by Robert or Craig:
> - ability to be transferred (code finished at 95%)
> - ability to be put on hold (perhaps I'll do it myself)
> - add video support
> - add audio codecs support back
> - add enum support back

Cool. Looking forward to it.

> Finally, I will still have the following to do :
> - clean up the GUI, and remove the little annoyances some of you have
> reported
> - add configuration profiles support (like gnome-terminal)
> - add support to transmit SIP instant messages when being in a call
> - add a registering mechanism on seconix.com for our new users
> 
> I'm sure that we will be ready in time for September, despite my wedding
> and honey moon ;)

Congratulations!