Requirements specification document

[sxanthos]

I'm planning to work on a requirements specification document, for the amsn application. I hope it will be possible to provide me with some guidelines to answer questions that i might have while working on the document.

[vivia]

First, you will need to subscribe to amsn-devel mailing list :

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel

Second, what guidelines exactly do you need?

[kakaroto]

Hi,
welcome to the forums... we'll be glad to help you with whatever you're doing...
but I'm curious as to what exactly you're trying to do and for what purpose?

[sxanthos]

First of all,I would like to thank you for your quick response to my post.
So far, due to the fact that I am in the beginning,I do not face difficulties with the requirements,thus I would like to realise if you are willing to help me with some difficulties that probably I will face in the future.
In terms of my purpose,
I'm student in a Greek University and I am following a course which called "Software engineering".In the condition of this course I have an assignment which the main issue is to find a project from the open source community and to appose the requirements of this project,in order to implement the theory into practise terms and at the same time to deeply understand which is the scope of this science.
Finally,I provide you a link with the definition of the requirement specification document :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Requirements_Specification

I hope this document will be usefull for you as well.

[kakaroto]

Hi,
thanks for the explanation! I hope you'll have some fun while doing this task!
Anyways, here are some stuff that might help you (although it's outdated and incomplete)...
http://amsn.sourceforge.net/devwiki/tiki-index.php?page=aMSN+Features
This pretty much lists all the features that we were able to think of at some point (more than 2 years ago...), so it should be a very good starting point in order to list the requirements of the project.
Maybe reading the FAQ and looking at the 'announcement' and 'amsn development' forums will help you see the major new features that were added recently (mainly webcam support, audio conversation, content roaming, non-IM contacts, multiple points of presence, etc..)
As we said before, if you need help, we'll be glad to give it to you!
Take care.

[SatrinThistic]

Hello!
I'm a student in the same Greek University as sxanthos and i started developping the same document 3 weeks ago. I communicated through the e-mailing with two administrators and took the permission to work on the project but recently i was informed that my classmate works on it too. So I would like to know if I can continue my job or not. Probably,I should have written here at first in order to be seen  :oops: Anyway, please inform me. Thank you.

[kakaroto]

Hi,
you would have to sort that out with your university, not with us...

[SatrinThistic]

Ok thank you very much for your reply! I'll figure it out.
                            Wish You Happy New Year!

[sxanthos]

hello,

I would like to ask the administrator about the main reason which you decide to make this project.Why you decide to make a clone of msn?
I want this information for make a flashback about the history of the project.

[kakaroto]

hummm... because we use MSN, our friends all use MSN and we want to talk with them, but we also want to use Linux because we don't have windows installed... so there's no good solution for MSN + linux... that's the reason!

[sxanthos]

Thank you for your response.I'm impress,it's summer and you answer my question in a few hours.
I want to ask you something more,

In the feautures you have "history in color" what exactly do you mean?

I can't find the minimum requirements about amsn installation and which are the preferable requirements?I am talking about hardware.

[sxanthos]

I forget to ask you and something more.
I want you tell me where can i find some information about amsn more technical about communications protocols and design conventions which must use someone who want to help you to develop the code of amsn.

Thank you about your time!!!

[kakaroto]

Hi again,
History in color, I don't know, but I'm guessing it means that your chat logs will contain the colors you were using in the chat (instead of just being all black .txt files)
about the technical info on the protocol, it's mostly reverse engineering without much documentation written in the end, so source code is the best place to get all the info you need.. however, there's this page where some people tried to document the protocol : http://msnpiki.msnfanatic.com/index.php/MSN_Protocol_Version_15
about the hardware requirements, we have no idea.. all I know is that it works on very old PCs using windows 95, and last low-end PC I tried it on was a 200MHz machine and it worked fine (although a bit slow of course).

[sxanthos]

hi again,

Because i have no camera, i want to ask you,if i can make a discusion via microphone when i open the camera or not? i read some documents and it say that amsn not support this feature. Is this true?

[kakaroto]

search the forum, it can be done but only in the SVN version