[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Charles N Wyble wrote:

> All,
>
>     Hello. Let me introduce myself. My name is Charles Wyble. I am the 
> lead developer on the open source exchange replacement project. I am 
> working with lkcl (www.lkcl.net) on mapi and exchange reverse 
> enginering. I would like to take over maitenence of the mapi 
> dissector. Does any one have any objections to this? My website fyi is 
> http://www.thewybles.com/~charles . I am in the process of writing up 
> dociumenation on the whole exchange/mapi decode thing. Look for it 
> within the next few weeks :)
Hi Charles!

The development model of Ethereal is: Someone (in this case you) are 
developing some extensions to an existing dissector (or creates a new 
one), and then creates and sends a patch to this list. One of the core 
developers (probably not me) will review the patch and check it into the 
subversion repository. However, it's always a good idea to ask this list 
(as you've done :-) so double effort will be reduced if someone else is 
working on the same topic.

So patches are welcome :-)

If you are new to Ethereal development, you might have a look at the 
Ethereal Developer's Guide at http://wiki.ethereal.com/Development 
(which is incomplete and a bit windows focused as I've written it and I 
only develop under Windows) and the file doc/README.developer.

Regards, ULFL