MSN Protocol documentation

[Felipe Contreras]

On Feb 1, 2008 10:34 PM, Mariano Guerra <luismarianoguerra at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2008 9:25 PM, Johann Prieur <johann.prieur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Before writing pages of worthy documentation, I'd like that we get some
> > orientation :
> >
> > - What is our priority in terms of protocol version? Is it worthy to take
> > time to document older versions of MSNP? Should we only focus on the latest
> > version? Should we choose some editorial style defining clearly what are the
> > changes between versions ("transition" pages)?
>
> I think we should focus on MSNP15 (the latest AFAIK), so we have one protocol
> version well documented. If a new one come up, we should still work to
> complete the MSNP15 documentation, when its complete we can move to the
> next one if it add some significant features, if it doesn't, then we can wait
> until a major new version.
>
> >  - What do you think YOU can bring in term of documentation? The goal here
> > is to define some tasks and assign them to volunteers so that we don't
> > replicate what another is doing and start getting a shape of what's coming.
>
> I guess the pymsn guys have almost all the MSNP15 protocol covered, we should
> hear what they have to say ;).
>  If there is some part still missing on their implementation I would
> love to try to
> investigate about it.
>
> So I guess we should document what they already know :P
>
> PS: emesenelib implementation is of MSNP13, some thigs are shared with MSNP15 so
> dx (the other developer) and I can document some of that parts and let
> pymsn et al
> document the parts that are particular to MSNP15.
>
> what do you think?

Yeah, I agree.

It will be nice to have documentation for older versions of the
protocols, but first MSNP15, then let's see what happens.

-- 
Felipe Contreras