[Bug 93556] New: Implement Matrix protocol support

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93556

            Bug ID: 93556
           Summary: Implement Matrix protocol support
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
          Assignee: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: matthew at matrix.org
        QA Contact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org

Matrix (Matrix.org) is a relatively new HTTP-based open standard for
decentralised group chat, VoIP, and freeform data pubsub with eventually
consistent persistance semantics.  The idea is to provide a very simple HTTP
API to decentralise conversation data without any single server or service
provider having a single point of control, whilst providing all the latest and
greatest features you'd expect from a modern chat service like Slack, etc. 
Matrix also provides a wide range of bridges serverside for federating together
existing services (IRC, Slack, Lync, XMPP etc) in a decentralised manner.  The
masterplan is to provide an open fabric for modern interoperable comms on the
'net with full decentralisation.

We implemented an experimental libpurple backend for Matrix
(https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix), but we just got a bug report
from a telepathy user that it doesn't work via telepathy-haze, as haze assumes
that all conversations are 1:1 whereas all conversations in Matrix are group
chats (even if they only have 2 participants):
https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/1.

We don't have bandwidth to write a dedicated telepathy backend now (or fix
haze), so I'm filing this bug in case someone in the telepathy community might
be interested in playing with a fun new protocol and contributing one.  Writing
clients should be incredibly straightforward; the Matrix client-server API (in
its simplest form) is just a REST API with long-polling to receive messages.

thanks!

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