[Gossip-dev] telepathy roadmap and media streaming

[Jimen Ching]

Hi all,

Since development is continuing on the telepathy branch, I was curious as
to what the criteria is for merging this branch into HEAD.  Does the
branch have to be as far along in terms of Jabber support before it can be
merged?

On a similar note; has anyone thought about how to support media
streaming (voice/video chat)?  Since telepathy is now treated just like a
protocol, I assume this means the media streaming architecture needs to be
as flexible as the account management.  I assume the API could be as
simple as:

	request_voice_chat
	cancel_voice_chat
	accept_voice_chat
	reject_voice_chat

The Telepathy spec supports uni- and bi-directional media streaming.  I'm
not sure how to present an interface to the user for this feature.
There's also the issue with talking with multiple contacts.  I'm thinking
of call-waiting...

As for video, I assume something similar would work:

	request_video_chat
	cancel_video_chat
	publish_video_chat
	accept_video_chat
	reject_video_chat

I don't know whether all IM protocols support video chats in this fashion.

Comments anyone?

--jc
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