Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] involve in development of Ekiga (multiple instances)

[Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>]

thomas schorpp a écrit :
> > I want to be involved in development of Ekiga.
>
> great, welcome :) damien sandras is maintainer

Yes.

> > I'm developer of
> > automatic testing system for SIP server. I use Perl for it.
>
> so You want to join as QA-Personnel?

*lol*

> > I want to be able to run several instances of Ekiga on PC. I think a can
> > develop such feature(for SIP server), but i need some help.
>
> this feature is already in, use a own UNIX account for every new instance.
> home work: read the mailinglist archives :D

Yes, this would work, but I'm curious if it wouldn't be possible to do 
this with some gconf daemon duplication (perhaps dbus too, but that one 
is easy, it's just a case of dbus-launching things :-) ).

> > I'm new in development of OpenSource, but I use Debian Linux on my home
> > desktop. Also I'm a student, i need any mentor for this.
>
> home work: read the docs about how to start, join and maintain as member 
> of an OSS project at the usual places.

This is perhaps a little too hard and harsh :-)

> OSS developers are busy and theres mostly no time left to "mentor" someone, 

Well, we can still mentor from far away :-)

> same goes for the whole proprietary software industry, "mentors" are only officials.
> to get accepted in OSS You must prove Your idependent working, 
> intelligence and creativity and team skills as your university surely demands the 
> same from you for becoming a candidate for bachelor/master of computer science ;)

Well, a little too harsh again :-)

> if You claim to be a University member so state Your University 
> and Your University Professor/Mentor first, pls. Dont use freemail contacts.   

I don't have issues with gmail accounts :-)

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