Re: Matrix as a replacement for Telepathy

[Gary Kramlich <grim reaperworld com>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:55 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 10:21 -0500, Gary Kramlich wrote:
> > > It's also a little hard to add the new features that we need, as things
> > > stand. I actually ended up backporting a bunch of stuff from 3.x to the
> > > 2.x branch a while back, to support everything that Lync needed. I'm
> > > kind of resigned to the fact that I might need to do the same, for the
> > > protocol I'm working on now.
> >
> > Dang, well let me know where I can help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I think you've actually already done the most useful thing, which is to
> give me commit access and tell me to go ahead and backport the missing
> features to 2.x that I needed. That meant that the lack of a 3.0
> release didn't actually prevent me from being able to ship those
> features at all.
>
> Obviously where I'd want to *change* an API rather than adding one,
> that approach is more complicated, but we've been able to cope so far.
>
> At some point I need to reinstate my access now that the repo has moved
> to bitbucket, and then I can start submitting patches for review again.

We've just been doing the forking model and saving direct commits to
the main repo for extreme circumstances.  Ie: tagging and other weird
stuff.

> On the whole, I quite like the idea of switching from Telepathy to
> libpurple. Much more than assuming a one-protocol-to-rule-them-all
> approach.

Me too, but of course I'm biased ;)

> --
> dwmw2


Thanks,

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Gary Kramlich <grim reaperworld com>