This summer, I’ll be working on AbiWord for the Google Summer of Code, in the AbiCollab project (”Systematically breaking and fixing AbiCollab”). Though the Summer of Code doesn’t officially start for another week, I thought I’d ease into it with a brief evaluation of the current state of AbiCollab. I had worked with the plugin a while ago (before the big rewrite), but hadn’t gotten it built recently.

Well, I can proudly announce that that’s changed. Thanks in part to the joy of virtualization (running both a Jabber server and the second AbiWord instance), I have the latest AbiWord (from SVN Trunk) compiled and running with the XMPP (Jabber) backend of the AbiCollab plugin. As the screen shot shows, it does work! I did run across a few issues already, but I definitely feel more capable and comfortable with the code now. And, I’m sure my mentor (master?) uwog will be glad to oblige my requests for explanation