This is my final report on my Google Summer of Code 2010 project. During the last three months I've learned quite a lot about Psi's and Iris' codebase and implemented most of what's been planned.

I started off implementing a new SASL mechanism, SCRAM-SHA-1, in Psi which will be used if no external SASL library is available.
Using this mechanism users can login securely even over unencrypted connections and if they want Psi to remember their password, this can be done more securely if SCRAM-SHA-1 is available at the server.
More on this part here.

I finally got the new join dialog for Psi finished.

When the dialog opens it shows you the rooms available at your server, if there are any, your recently joined rooms and your bookmarked ones. At the top you simply enter the nickname which you want to use to join the rooms.

There's little special about this dialog and it works how you'd expect it to work, hopefully. If you want to give it a try yourself the code is available here.

Here another short update on my Google Summer of Code project.

I've designed a new dialog for Psi which should ease the process of joining a room. The new dialog's features include:

• all sources of existing rooms in a single dialog
• allow entering a JID of a room manually
• select multiple rooms from server room list, history and bookmarks and join them at once

Currently I'm hammering out the last couple of models for the server room list and bookmarks/history views. To round up this small post, here a screenshot of the dialog:

Psi is a powerful and popular XMPP client which runs on nearly any platform. It recently got features like Jingle Audio which enables peer-to-peer audio calls.

These new features aside, Psi's user interface is lacking in various places, including, but not limited to, the multi-user chat area. This is kind of sad since the project's mission statement includes ease of use.
The second part of my Google Summer of Code project is to improve this area.

Psi's known to be used more by power IM users than by people who are new to IM, and as power user you like auto-join a couple of MUCs and also connect from multiple places to your account. However if you're already logged in and joined all those rooms, a lot MUC software will complain that you are already in the room, when a your second resource tries to auto-join those.

Here comes another short update on my Google Summer of Code project.

Stanza acknowledgement is finally done, including representation in the GUI. You can see a short demonstration of the feature in the video below where I'm chatting with Matthew Wild, one of Prosody's main developers. He developed a module for Prosody that implements parts of Stream Management. This made my client side implementation much more easier to test.

The idea is simple: the status icon in the top left corner is replaced with a throbber animation, known to users from recent OSes and browsers, as long as there are messages that haven't been acked by the server.
Psi will at least request an ack after half a minute. However only if there's something to acknowledge for the server.