[Bug 1432613] Re: Facebook and MSN messengers shutting down (third-party client access)

[Iain Lane]

These are all uploaded. mardy, could you please push lp:~laney/account-
plugins/lp1432613-{trusty,utopic,vivid} to the stable branches for those
releases please?

** Description changed:

+ [ Description ]
+ 
+ Facebook messenger and Windows Live messenger don't work any more
+ because Facebook & Microsoft removed third-party support for them.
+ 
+ [ Fix & QA ]
+ 
+ Stop supporting IM accounts for these clients. For both creation &
+ continued use.
+ 
+ Verify that if you add a WLM or FB account in online accounts, empathy
+ doesn't try to connect to it.
+ 
+ account-plugins-windows-live shouldn't be pulled in by default any
+ more (check a trusty daily which is built with proposed).
+ 
+ [ Regression potential ]
+ 
+ This is a regression, in that we stop supporting some account types.
+ We don't have a choice about this.
+ 
+ [ Original description ]
+ 
  The march towards a future of silos carries on.
  
  https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat - the XMPP gateway for
  Facebook will shut down on April 30.
  
  http://ismsndeadyet.com/ - Microsoft are removing MSN endpoints.
  
  I guess we need to correspondingly remove IM support for these services
  & SRU it back.

** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu Utopic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: account-plugins (Ubuntu Utopic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: account-plugins (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => In Progress

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