[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Fwd: Maintenance, activity and Maemo Leste

[Merlijn Wajer]

Hello Debian Telepathy Maintainers,

I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the email below. I'm working 
on Maemo Leste with some other people for the past seven years, which is 
a Debian/Devuan based mobile linux distribution/ui, and we're continuing 
to use and develop Telepathy.

Would you perhaps know how to best reach any remaining Telepathy folks, 
how we could keep maintaining and make sure fixes make it to the various 
distributions?

Regards,
Merlijn


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Maintenance, activity and Maemo Leste
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 12:47:19 +0200
From: Merlijn Wajer <merlijn at wizzup.org>
To: telepathy at lists.freedesktop.org
CC: maemo-leste <maemo-leste at lists.dyne.org>, Ivaylo Dimitrov 
<ivo.g.dimitrov.75 at gmail.com>

Hi,

I'm mailing this list to see if there's still any one maintaining 
Telepathy and if there is interesting in adding (additional) maintainers.

I'm working with Ivaylo (CC) and others on Maemo Leste, which is a FOSS 
(and already functional) mobile operation system based on Nokia's Maemo 
from ~2008 and we are using Telepathy for our calls (using 
telepathy-ring), instant messages and so on. We have also received some 
funding to work on Telepathy integration [1], which we are now finally 
getting to after laying the other groundwork within Maemo Leste.

We've already started adding features to telepathy-haze [2], which was 
also submitted as merge request here [3], but so far we haven't seen any 
activity from the maintainers. The merge request adds basic support for 
multi user chat rooms and I we have confirmed it works OK with purple 
tdlib (Telegram), purple Slack and purple-facebook - we'll also continue 
working on this to support other libpurple supported protocols like 
Discord. We've also been building UIs to configure the various accounts.

We're also planning on either extending telepathy-gabble or building a 
new XMPP connection manager using QXMPP [4] and TelepathyQt and attempt 
to make it compatible with the modern XMPP standards [5].

I think Sailfish OS might also still be using some parts of Telepathy, 
but I am not sure what other (mobile) projects are.

So I'm mailing this list to:

1. See if there's others still around who develop or use Telepathy and 
have a vested interested in it;
2. Figure out if we should just keep our changes around in forks of the 
Telepathy repository, or if we could work with the existing maintainers 
to get changes reviewed, pushed out and released;
3. See (if not (2)) if we could become maintainers (over time I suppose, 
but we'll need at least someone from the TP project active to pursue this);

Regards,
Merlijn


[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/MaemoLeste-Telepathy/
[2] 
https://github.com/maemo-leste-upstream-forks/telepathy-haze/commits/maemo/chimaera-devel
[3] 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-haze/-/merge_requests/4
[4] https://doc.qxmpp.org/qxmpp-1/
[5] https://docs.modernxmpp.org/