On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:32 AM Alexander Akulich <akulichalexan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin and everyone. > > I would like to take over the KDE Telepathy maintainership. > > I understand that Telepathy is a huge and complex project that needs a > lot of manpower to actually come back, but there is no other project > with the same goals and capabilities. For me, Telepathy is not the > exact specification, but an idea of IM system with replaceable > components that give you a freedom to combine whatever you want across > operation systems, desktop environments, and programming languages > with the best rate of shared code and system integration. > > I can spend two hours and write a long list of reasons why Telepathy > is the right thing to do, but please let me spend this time on the > development to prove my arguments by deed and not by words. > On the other hand, I don't want to fail someone's expectations, so > please continue to not expect much. :) > > I think that in the current era of proprietary IM services, such > integrated and yet distributed solution has a chance to prove itself > with open protocols such as Matrix, Telegram (MTProto), XMPP, Tox, > Slack, IRC, SIP (reSIProcate), Gitter, Rocket.Chat, Signal, Discord > and so on. For sure the list can meet the demands of some users. > > I have interest, ideas, experience, and prototypes. Now I have some > time to start checking out features one by one. I'm already a > maintainer of TelepathyQt (I released the last three versions), but > the library and services mean nothing without a client. I have some > pending reviews for 10 months [1] and if nobody reviews them then > maybe it will be right to become a maintainer and start to land them. > > As a maintainer, I'll also take responsibility for bug fixing (as a > start I committed three bug fixes at the last three days). > > P.S.: If you're going to support Matrix then please, please! develop a > good library. I don't want to offend anyone, but QMatrixClient needs a > lot of improvements and maybe you can help. With a good library (such > as QXmpp) a Telepathy service implementation would consist of about 2k > lines of code. > > [1] https://phabricator.kde.org/D12751 Yes please! You've already proven yourself throughout the years with all your contributions, so you have my blessing :) Thanks for stepping up! Cheers -- Martin Klapetek
