[Telepathy] Project revival?

George Kiagiadakis gkiagia at tolabaki.gr
Fri Jun 10 04:18:26 UTC 2016


On 09.06.2016 18:44, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> Hey George,
> 
> nice to see you back!
> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 11:02 AM, George Kiagiadakis
> <gkiagia at tolabaki.gr> wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> For those of you that don't know me, I'm an old kde-telepathy &
>> telepathy-qt developer who's been inactive in telepathy for a
>> couple of
>> years. Recently I've been looking again into what is going on in
>> this
>> project and it looks like it's dead, which is a pity. However, I
>> can see
>> there is some limited activity around telepathy-qt, with some
>> people
>> writing new Qt-based CMs (cool!). This little activity makes me
>> hope
>> that maybe it's possible to revive the rest of the project?
>> 
>> I'm basically writing this email to declare my interest in
>> attempting a
>> revival. I think free communication is quite important and it's
>> being
>> neglected a lot recently in the FOSS world, which motivates me
>> enough to
>> spend some time again in this project.
>> 
>> As a start, I would like to get in touch with all of you who are
>> still
>> working on something related to telepathy. It would be nice to
>> start a
>> conversation about project needs and future plans. So, if you are
>> interested, please get in touch. I am 'gkiagia' on irc and various
>> other
> 
>> places on the internet.
> 
> So KDE Telepathy is right now pretty much in maintenance mode
> for lack of developers, but there is some development by me going
> into a new KDE/Qt/QML client called SpaceBar, which does not
> have any public releases yet and is moreless built on top of
> ktp-common-internals fork, which I would love to get back to master.
> 
> The primary focus was/is Plasma mobile, but it's very well usable
> on desktop as well with some nice features like endless-history-on-
> scroll and full emoji support plus all the goodness of ktp-text-ui
> filters.

Hey Martin,

Glad to hear you are still around :)
I'm also really happy to learn about your new client. I'm looking 
forward to see it in action.

Cheers,
George



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