Re: Matrix as a replacement for Telepathy

[Michael Catanzaro <mike catanzaro gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> 
wrote:
> What do people think about integrating directly with Matrix as a 
> replacement for Telepathy?

I think what's clear right now is that Telepathy has no future and 
should be immediately removed from our stack. We should have done that 
years ago when maintenance ceased.

I don't think we need to discuss what, if anything, should replace it 
right now. The community consensus seems to be Matrix, and I'm hoping 
to see a successful GNOME Matrix client in the near future. I know 
there are multiple efforts at to make one right now. But people are 
clearly working on libpurple too, and that's fine. We can let it play 
out and decide in a couple of years if or how we want to bring back 
desktop integration for chat. In the meantime, as a longtime Empathy 
user and a recent convert to Polari, the current state of Telepathy 
integration in gnome-shell is not valuable to me.

Michael