Hello! I have some questions regarding the current and future Telepathy status. I am aware that Telepathy is mainly targeted at integrating various IM-related solutions into a desktop-friendly manner.
As one of the possible connection managers it features XMPP and here the story begins. It is known that XMPP is not only an IM protocol. One could say that it isn't an IM protocol at all and IM is only a subset of its capabilities. That's not my job to decide. But we have to respect that XMPP is more than IM. Since Telepathy uses XMPP my interest is: is it only for the IM subset or the bigger part of XMPP too? I am especially talking about PubSub, which is getting quite a buzz for some time. Having working PubSub would enable Telepathy clients to read Atom feeds for example and have many other benefits from it. Most of us probably uses package managers. I personally would like to be notified about updates as soon as possible, but I am bored of the constant apt-get update stuff (I know I got cron, but that's not a point). I would like to have possibility to write an application that would register itself in a PubSub feed and got notified once new items are pushed. This could reduce traffic and help informing people around the world about new plugins, new packages, new updates, etc. The point is: is such functionality in the area of Telepathy (there should possibly be split between system Telepathy bus (package updates) and session Telepathy bus (IM, plugins, Atom)) or should a new specialized system be written? I hope I would be understood, sorry for my language, though. Piotr Gaczkowski
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