On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:31:32PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > today. Are we going to help Empathy with it's effort to some day offer a > > > point-for-point feature match? That's what we are discussing. > > > > I don't believe this is what is meant with joining the GNOME project. It > > is not that we do a 'oh, lets reassign some persons from $PROJECT to > > Empathy'. > > > I agree with your statement about developer allocation. But that's not what > I mean. Inclusion in the official Gnome suite adds a certain level of > additional credibility to a project. And while this is always good for the > project in question, in this case, we would publicly be encouraging the > fragmentation of the de facto Gnome desktop IM space. > > Would the benefits of telepathy over libpurple outweigh the damage done to > community coherancy? At this point, it seems that it would have a net > negative effect on end user experience over the course of the next 2-3 years > in the sense that two integratable IM projects would have competing teams of > folks working on integrating said applications with the Gnome deskop > applications. > > In practice, this means more work for module maintainers who have to accept > patches from two different IM projects.
So Pidgin developer should quickly rework it to be only on of UI for telepathy-managed connection. Same thing shoudl Gajim developers do. -- Tomasz Torcz "Funeral in the morning, IDE hacking [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the afternoon and evening." - Alan Cox _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
