I'm fed up of people complaining about developers. It's *free software*, and if you get anything more than you paid for then you should be grateful (I certainly am).
This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way of the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed. When someone gives their best effort to produce software as a gift to the community, often working in spare evenings with lots of other distractions which prevent them giving their full focus to the task, they get next to no praise when it works and a whole heap of criticism when they make a tiny mistake. People even accuse them of deliberately inserting the mistake as a government spy. I'm currently writing up my PhD thesis. When I finish, I will have some free time while waiting for my viva voce, and would be willing to spend some of that time trying to fix this, as it is something I would find useful myself and potentially also a helpful addition to my CV. However there are probably plenty of people out there who would do a better job than I, especially since I have mainly used Fortran and Python for the last 4 years so my C/C++ is rather rusty. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 Title: empathy needs to support OTR encryption Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Confirmed Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in Telepathy framework - library: Confirmed Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “empathy” package in Fedora: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Hello, I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g. automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here. The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important feature because no one should read your messages. There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom). Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard. Thanks for helping out! Links: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2 http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/296867/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
