[Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

[Marcus Haslam]

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 14 Apr 2011, at 07:12, Jordan Farrell <296867 at bugs.launchpad.net>  
wrote:

> Actually, it would be impossible to have made the cut for 11.04 just
> because the day I started the project I would have only had two weeks
> to get something pushed through and then approved for the code freeze
> date. However I am shooting for 11.10 and I now have two more people
> that will be helping me with it. The major push for the project will
> begin in mid-May and hopefully our code will be accepted before 11.10.
> But initially their may only be support for Google and MSN, possibly
> Yahoo. The rest will follow those and Google and MSN should be
> completed about the same time. The reason for MSN being supported so
> early is that the connection manager for it was programmed in Python,
> which is the language I have more experince in.
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:34 AM, mitzip <296867 at bugs.launchpad.net>  
> wrote:
> Jordan,
>
> Is there any hope to get it in the final release of 11.04? That  
> would be
> awesome!! The first Ubuntu release with OTR in empathy I'll be  
> switching
> my business and family over to Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks for your work on this,
> David
>
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> Title:
>  empathy needs to support OTR encryption
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
>  Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in Telepathy framework - library:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu:
>  In Progress
> Status in “empathy” package in Fedora:
>  Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: empathy
>
>  Hello,
>  I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very  
> solid and stable. There were a few minor things that could be  
> improved (e.g. automatically resizing the contact list), but that is  
> not the topic here.
>  The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing  
> OTR support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really  
> important feature because no one should read your messages.
>  There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
>  Would be so great if it could support that important encryption  
> standard.
>  Thanks for helping out!
>
>  Links:
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
>  http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
>  http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891
>
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> Title:
>  empathy needs to support OTR encryption
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
>  Confirmed
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in Telepathy framework - library:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
> Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu:
>  In Progress
> Status in “empathy” package in Fedora:
>  Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: empathy
>
>  Hello,
>  I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very  
> solid and stable. There were a few minor things that could be  
> improved (e.g. automatically resizing the contact list), but that is  
> not the topic here.
>  The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing  
> OTR support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really  
> important feature because no one should read your messages.
>  There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
>  Would be so great if it could support that important encryption  
> standard.
>  Thanks for helping out!
>
>  Links:
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
>  http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
>  http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891


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