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

[Mikael Hallendal]

Martyn Russell wrote:

> So yes, 6 months isn't long enough and even at the rate of knots we are
> going now with all the patches Xavier and Eitan are writing, I still
> don't think that Telepathy will be feature rich and stable enough to
> replace what we currently have in Gossip in 6 months time - perhaps I
> will be wrong, but we certainly won't have time to implement the UI in
> Gossip in that time frame.

It could also be worth mentioning that reviewing whether to make a
switch to Telepathy or not will also add to the time. Especially since
Telepathy/Gabble is currently lacking several features that needs to be
in place to even consider making a switch.

I'm also not sure how well we will be able to implement specific JEPs or
own enhancements over Jabber through Telepathy?

Is there a way to pass/read unfiltered jabber XML through Telepathy. If
not, is it possible to just use Telepathy for MSN/ICQ what-not and
continue using our own implementation of Jabber.

We already have a stable implementation of Jabber (which is our #1
protocol to support). Any extra protocols such as MSN/ICQ will be second
citizens and we will not cripple the jabber support to have them.

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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