Ekiga 3.0 [LSARC/2008/650 FastTrack timeout 10/31/2008]
Irene Huang
Irene.Huang at sun.com
Wed Oct 29 22:52:15 PDT 2008
Hi, all
This case is due time out on Oct 31st. Any further issues, please send
an email before timeout.
Thanks
--Irene
Elaine Xiong wrote:
> John,
>
> The name comes from the community. There is another D-Bus service
> called org.ekiga.Helper.service, which I forgot to add it to the
> original one-pager. The attached one-pager corrects this mistake, and
> the iLBC audio plugin is removed from the exported interfaces as it is
> a non-free codec.
>
> Thank you,
>
> BR,
> Elaine
> John Fischer wrote:
>> Elaine,
>>
>> The D-Bus service name seems to have a redundant
>> name of ekiga and Ekiga. I looked at an installed
>> system and noted that most other D-Bus services
>> do not have this redundancy with xchat being the
>> only exception but still different. Is this D-Bus
>> service name established by the community? If not
>> then please remove the redundancy. If so then fine
>> but please work with the community to see about
>> removing the redundancy.
>>
>> Irene,
>>
>> Will there be a contract created for OpenLDAP?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 22:10, Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote:
>>
>>> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase %I% %G% SMI
>>> This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems
>>> 1. Introduction
>>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>>> Ekiga 3.0
>>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>>> Author: Elaine Xiong
>>> 1.3 Date of This Document:
>>> 22 October, 2008
>>> 4. Technical Description
>>> 1. Introduction
>>> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>>>
>>> Ekiga 3.0
>>>
>>> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>>>
>>> Elaine Xiong
>>>
>>> 1.3. Date of This Document:
>>>
>>> 10/13/08
>>>
>>> 1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
>>>
>>> 1.4.1. The PAC or CPT you expect to review your project:
>>>
>>> Solaris PAC
>>>
>>> 1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
>>>
>>> LSARC
>>>
>>> 1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:
>>>
>>> robert.odea at sun.com
>>>
>>> 1.4.4. The name of your business unit:
>>>
>>> New Solaris Group / Desktop
>>>
>>> 1.5. Email Aliases:
>>>
>>> 1.5.1. Responsible Manager:
>>>
>>> leo.binchy at sun.com
>>>
>>> 1.5.2. Responsible Engineer:
>>>
>>> elaine.xiong at sun.com
>>>
>>> 1.5.3. Marketing Manager:
>>>
>>> glynn.foster at sun.com
>>>
>>> 1.5.4. Interest List:
>>>
>>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>>
>>> 2. Project Summary
>>> 2.1. Project Description:
>>>
>>> The current version of Ekiga shipped in SNV is 2.0.12.
>>>
>>> This project upgrades Ekiga 2.0.12 to the latest major release 3.0.
>>> Ekiga 3.0 provides several major enhancements. Refer to section 4.1
>>> for details on the new features.
>>>
>>> 2.2. Risks and Assumptions:
>>>
>>> Ekiga 3.0 depends on OPAL VoIP libraries that implement the main VOIP
>>> protocols. The libraries includes PTLib and Opal that might be changed
>>> in the future. PTLib is the new name of PWLib that Ekiga 2.x depends
>>> on. The name change reflects the removal of the GUI code from PWLib,
>>> which part of code Ekiga never uses.
>>>
>>> Ekiga 3.0 depends on OpenLDAP that hasn't been integrated into SNV
>>> yet. SunLDAP and OpenLDAP APIs diverge in a great many ways thereby
>>> patches are needed to make Ekiga 3.0 work with SunLDAP for the time
>>> being. The patches will be removed once OpenLDAP integration is done.
>>>
>>> 4. Technical Description:
>>> 4.1. Details:
>>>
>>> Ekiga is a VoIP, IP Telephony, and Video Conferencing application
>>> that allows users to make audio and video calls to remote users with
>>> SIP or H.323 compatible hardware and software. It supports many audio
>>> and video codecs and all modern VoIP features for both SIP and H.323.
>>>
>>> All user configuration for Ekiga 3.0 is backwards compatible with
>>> Ekiga 2.x so that users can switch between the two versions without
>>> any effect on their configuration choices.
>>>
>>> Ekiga 3.0 provides the following new major features:
>>>
>>> Graphical User Interface
>>> * New user interface with a buddy list
>>> * Accelerated video display - XVideo
>>> * Nice incoming call notifications
>>> * Easier configuration assistant
>>> * New quality meter in the status bar
>>> * Buddy list with extended status information
>>> * Displays network neighbors in the buddy list
>>> * Better keyboard shortcuts
>>> * Automatic account completion in the URL bar
>>> * New chat window
>>> * New address book supporting Evolution contacts, LDAP contacts and more
>>> * New account window allowing easier account creation
>>> * New call panel
>>>
>>> Codecs
>>> * THEORA
>>> * Framerate up to 30 FPS
>>> * Resolutions (up to 704x576) (at best it is DVD quality)
>>> * Audio and video codecs as plugins
>>>
>>> SIP Support
>>> * SIP/SIMPLE presence support
>>> * Line monitoring with software like Asterisk
>>> * Custom presence message support
>>> * Dynamic detection of network interfaces
>>> * Register/unregister accounts on interfaces going up and down
>>> * Better NAT traversal
>>> * SIP requests originated from a unique port
>>> * Support for several network interfaces at the same time (e.g. VPN and normal network)
>>> * Full SIP capabilities exchange for codecs (unique in the Open Source world)
>>> * SIP INFO DTMF support
>>> * Possibility to send SMS using the Ekiga Call Out account
>>>
>>> 4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
>>>
>>> CR6762807
>>>
>>> 4.3. In Scope:
>>>
>>> see above.
>>>
>>> 4.4. Out of Scope:
>>>
>>> see above.
>>>
>>> 4.5. Interfaces:
>>>
>>> Exported Interface
>>>
>>> Interface Name Classification Comment
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> /usr/lib/ekiga/libpt.so.2 Project Private PTLib library
>>> /usr/lib/ekiga/libopal.so.3 Project Private OPAL library
>>> /usr/lib/ekiga/opal/codecs/ Project Private OPAL g726 audio plugin
>>> audio/g726_audio_pwplugin.so
>>> /usr/lib/ekiga/opal/codecs/ Project Private OPAL gsm audio plugin
>>> audio/gsm0610_audio_pwplugin.so
>>> /usr/lib/ekiga/opal/codecs/ Project Private OPAL ms-gsm audio plugin
>>> audio/gsmamrcodec_pwplugin.so
>>> /usr/lib/ekiga/opal/codecs/ Project Private OPAL iLBC audio plugin
>>> audio/ilbc_audio_pwplugin.so
>>> /usr/lib/ekiga/opal/codecs/ Project Private OPAL H.261 video plugin
>>> video/h261-vic_video_pwplugin.so
>>> /usr/lib/ekiga/opal/codecs/ Project Private OPAL THEORA video plugin
>>> video/theora_video_pwplugin.so
>>> /usr/share/doc/SUNWgnome-meeting Project Private License files
>>> /usr/share/omf/ekiga Project Private OMF directory
>>> /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ Volatile D-BUS service file
>>> org.ekiga.Ekiga.service
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Imported Interface
>>>
>>> Interface Classification ARC case Comment
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> GNOME Libraries Committed LSARC 2008/510 GTK+ library
>>> D-BUS Volatile LSARC 2006/368 D-BUS library
>>> OpenLDAP Volatile PSARC 2008/507 OpenLDAP library
>>> Avahi Volatile LSARC 2007/464 Avahi library
>>> Libsigc++ Volatile LSARC 2008/074 Sigc++ library
>>> Libtheora Volatile LSARC 2008/510 THEORA codec library
>>>
>>>
>>> 4.6. Doc Impact:
>>>
>>> Help docs.
>>>
>>> 4.7. Admin/Config Impact:
>>>
>>> None.
>>>
>>> 4.8. HA Impact:
>>>
>>> None.
>>>
>>> 4.9. I18N/L10N Impact:
>>>
>>> The JDS team and the G11N are working together to evaluate and
>>> provide I18N/L10N support.
>>>
>>> 4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
>>>
>>> SUNWgnome-meeting (base package), approximately 15Mb.
>>>
>>> 4.11. Security Impact:
>>>
>>> The JDS team and Ekiga community work together to identify
>>> and fix any security issues found. The Ekiga community
>>> provides us with security patches for issues they have identified.
>>>
>>> 4.12. Dependencies:
>>>
>>> The following versions of the imported interfaces are required:
>>> GNOME 2.24
>>> D-BUS 1.2.3
>>> OpenLDAP 2.4.11
>>> Avahi 0.6.23
>>> Libsigc++ 2.0
>>> Libtheora 1.0
>>>
>>> 5. Reference Documents:
>>>
>>> [1] Ekiga homepage:
>>> http://www.ekiga.org
>>> PTLib and Opal homepage:
>>> http://www.opalvoip.org/
>>>
>>> [2] Related ARC cases:
>>> LSARC 2008/510: Gnome 2.24
>>> LSARC 2006/368: D-BUS Message Bus System
>>> PSARC 2008/507: OpenLDAP for OpenSolaris
>>> LSARC 2007/464: Avahi and libdaemon
>>> LSARC 2008/074: Gtkmm, Glibmm, Cairomm and libsigc++ for Indiana
>>> LSARC 2006/182: Ekiga: a videoconferencing and VOIP/IP-Telephony application
>>>
>>>
>>> 6. Resources and Schedule
>>> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information
>>> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
>>> Desktop
>>> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
>>> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/attachments/20081030/b9266ad2/attachment.html>
More information about the opensolaris-arc
mailing list