Re: [Telepathy] Telepathy Status

Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 à 12:26 +0100, Dafydd Harries a écrit :
> Ar 09/10/2006 am 21:23, ysgrifennodd Eitan Isaacson:
> > * We are right now building a vertical solution in the sense that we are
> > managing accounts, connections, contacts, and incoming channels all in
> > the same process. If we are truly subscribing to the telepathy way of
> > life we need to redefine the goals of gossip. Telepathy dictates that
> > there should be something called mission control[3] that will do all the
> > background handling of connections and account settings and delegate
> > actual communications to separate channel handlers, so these are some
> > options I see:
> > 	1. separate gossip in to two processes, mission control, and everything
> > else.
> > 	2. stay monolithic, and delegate unhandled channels to external
> > handlers.
> > 	3. size down to a roster and IM interface.
> > 	4. combination of 2 and 3, be a self sustaining process with an option
> > of cooperating with an MC.
> > Just thought I would throw that out there and hopefully flare up some
> > discussion :)
> 
> One way forward would be for Gossip to implement the MC API, and for MC to be
> split into a separate component later on.
> 
> There was a lot of enthusiasm at Boston for the Telepathy port of Gossip, and
> it was suggested that we propose it for inclusion in Gnome 2.18. If we want to
> do this, we should do it right now -- I think the deadline for proposals is
> the 13th. I personally feel this is a good idea: getting Gossip with Telepathy
> support into Gnome would be a major boon to both Telepathy and Gnome. If
> inclusion is rejected, we can always re-propose it for 2.20. Either way, not
> having MC as a separate component should not block Gossip's adoption by Gnome.
> 

This is the kind of mail that should be CCed to gossip's ML :-)

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