[Gossip-dev] Re: [Telepathy] Telepathy Status

[Jimen Ching]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> For selfish reasons I would _love_ to see Gossip-Telepathy included in
> Gnome 2.18. But besides the obvious immature code, we also don't yet
> have a good multi-protocol story. This is the reason distributions
> choose Gaim over us. So besides gabble, what we really need is three or
> four other feature-rich connection managers for the major protocols.

I'm surprised that so many of the Gossip developers feel that 6 months of 
development isn't sufficient to stabilize telepathy-gossip for inclusion 
into GNOME.  Granted, I don't think it's possible to support 12 IM 
protocols.  But 6 months should be enough to support the major ones.

Is the concern that there's not enough developers?  Or not enough time 
spent on the project by develoeprs?  Perhaps if Gossip development has a 
schedule.  I know free software development don't like schedules.  But you 
know what they say about time management.  If you don't prioritize, time 
will slip away without knowing where it went.  If this applies to every 
day life, it should apply to software development.

I would like to know what it would take to be included into GNOME (in 
terms of features), and why it can't be achieved in 6 months.  This is an 
IM client, after all.  Not a telephone switching software.

One concern I do have is this discussion about accounts.  I hope this 
won't drag on for months...

--jc
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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching at flex.com     wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org