The project of the month for may 2010 is Jappix. This is a very new project developped on CodingTeam.net since april 2010!

According to the project leader, Jappix is a Jabber web-client that aims at becoming the web equivalent of Gajim. It means that loads of XMPP XEP will be supported, and the client will probably become a "mini" social network, entirely based on the XMPP protocole, with the help of PubSub.

The graphical aspect is also very important to the Jappix team as they want the non-profit Jappix project to be as good as other commercial web-app. According to them, the user has to feel good while using it: “ The Jabber network needs good clients, so that we can do it and convert everyone to Jabber. Let's decentralize the instant messenging ! ”

And now, a few questions asked to the project leader!

• How did you know CodingTeam?
  
  I know Codingteam thanks to Edouard, who posted a comment on my weblog, that told me he was using CodingTeam.net since a few time and it was pretty good for his projects (in fact, they were shared faster). At the really beginning, I wanted to use Launchpad.net from Canonical, but I saw that it wasn't as good as I expected. Here came CodingTeam.net !
   
• What CodingTeam brings in your project development?
  
  CodingTeam brings us a better organisation, mostly with the bugs reporting tool, that we use mainly as a ToDo list (because I report all the functionalities that I'd like to code for the next versions with that tool).
  
  On the one hand, CodingTeam.net brings us a simple hosting platform for our project, with a great SVN repository and package hosting, with the principal advandage that is to get a quick view of the total number of downloads, with the popularity of our project on the platform. The OpenForge API is also great, because we use it to retrieve data on one of our external website.
  
  On the other hand, the work of the translators was really simplified thanks to CodingTeam, because they are able to start translating from a simple web interface, and they do not need to contact us anymore to send any translated strings file ! That's simple, direct, and powerful.
  
  There are loads of things that CodingTeam has which make me love it (the XMPP functionnalities and so on). It make us work even faster and easier, together.
   
• What would you see in CodingTeam in the future?
  
  Well, I think that, in a first, some tools like the translation engine might be improved to allow anonymous users translating the project that they want to. Then, I really think that opening the forge to other repository protocols (principally Git), because some developers can't bear Subversion...
  
  Allowing project managers to add external Jabber rooms or external repositories would be great too. Maybe that on some CodingTeam modules, the performances should be increased too: the page generation can be very slow by using a particular tool and very fast with some other tools.
   
• Since you use CodingTeam, did you became rich and sexy?
  
  Well, I got lots of donations (74€) for the project (I don't know if it's thanks to the "donate" link on CodingTeam.net or the one on my weblog), but the main thing is that it allowed me to code even faster and better.
   

Thanks to Valérian who answered to my questions! Feel free to take a look at Jappix!