Hey guys, I was long thinking about writing this email but kept putting it off, but I think it's only fair towards everyone, especially our users so here it goes finally.
The KDE Telepathy project is as of now unmaintained for over a year. That means there is no active development nor bugfixes except a few occasional patches from an uncooperative guy. Nobody is handling the incoming bugs. The protocol support is outdated, the KAccounts project is unmaintained (including the upstream), I'm not sure about the upstream Telepathy project but my guess is that it's also not in active development anymore either. As the last maintainer of KDE Telepathy and KAccounts, I feel like we're doing our users a disservice by shipping such outdated and unmaintained software. Therefore I'd like to recommend to stop shipping KDE Telepathy (all the ktp-* packages) as part of KDE Applications, if just to not give the impression that this is still being developed. But I'd like to leave it at that - a recommendation from the previous maintainer. If you guys still think it's worth being shipped, it's ok if you continue so. I just wanted you to be aware of the state of the project that we ship as our main IM solution. Cheers -- Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer