Kopete and Telepathy
So in my last blog about the new MSN plugin that Kopete has, I got some comments about wanting updates on the integration of Kopete and Telepathy, which from the KDE side of things, involves Decibel as well.
The update is that no work has been done to integrate Telepathy in to Kopete. Why? Because we don't have the people to do the work. (I don't count the Telepathy plugin that exists, since that's just POC). For the most part, Kopete sees only some very light maintenance work (bugfixes and such) because we just don't have the manpower we used to have.
Integrating Telepathy (through the use of Decibel) into Kopete is something that the majority of the team wants to do, but we need more people to help because it's going to be a massive undertaking with all the various design and coding tasks that will need to be done to make that happen.
Another reason is the barrier to entry is kinda high. One would have to learn about D-Bus, Telepathy, Qt, KDE, Decibel, and Kopete to really get going. If people are interested, the folks on the kopete-devel mailing list and on the #kopete IRC channel will be glad to answer any questions anybody has.
new MSN plugin for Kopete
I've just imported the new MSN plugin (now called WLM for Windows Live Messenger) into trunk for KDE 4.2. This new plugin provides support for MSNP15 and in general lays the groundwork for way more stuff to be added to Kopete's MSN plugin. The new plugin uses a library called libmsn which you can get from SourceForge
Thanks go to Tiago Salem Herrmann, Gustavo Boiko, and Roman Jarosz for doing
all the heavy lifting.
Now go install libmsn, update your trunk checkouts, and start testing! 