On 24/06/13 13:44, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > we have not been doing a good work at supporting other protocols than > IRC and XMPP with Pidgin in Tails. E.g. MSN has been known broken for > years, and not much happened on this front since then. We're also > receiving reports of other protocols being broken, and we lack energy > to investigate. > > I'd rather see us slightly limit the scope of what we're trying to > achieve, and do it better. > > So, I hereby propose: > > (1) We immediately stop supporting protocols other than IRC and XMPP > with Pidgin in Tails. This means we *remove* from Tails the shared > libraries that implement these protocols. > > (2) From now on, we apply the following conditions to add a new > protocol back: > a) someone volunteers to maintain the corresponding support in > Tails on the long term; > b) it's been successfully tested in Tails; > c) someone has verified that its security record (including open > bugs in the Pidgin BTS) does not seem too scary. > > Deadline if nobody objects: July 1st at noon CEST.
I'm fine with that. Once this is done we should document this on https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/pidgin/. That way, we might get more people to do the work for other protocols.
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