Re: [Bug 296867]

2015-06-02 Thread Sam Liddicott
Xavier, I'm happy to pay you now. PayPal to email? Sam On 2 Jun 2015 21:01, "Xavier Claessens" wrote: > There are patches, there are review comments, and 55 subscribers to this > bug. If only one of you could just work on it instead of complaining... > > -- > You received this bug notification b

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2015-06-02 Thread Sam Liddicott
How will this be marked as complete on freedomsponsors? How do we pay Xavier? Sam On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:32 PM, G4JC <296...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Just so everyone knows, this has been completed quite some time ago via > a bounty developer on FreedomSponsors. > > However, upstream is fu

Re: [Bug 296867]

2014-04-30 Thread Sam Liddicott
Disturbingly that applies as much to Monsanto as it does to Ubuntu or FOSS. On 30 Apr 2014 07:15, "James Cuzella" wrote: > Complaints show fear, anger & ungratefulness while calm feature requests > show peace, gratefulness & understanding of a problem. > > Community giving of FOSS shows kindness

Re: [Bug 296867]

2014-04-29 Thread James Cuzella
Complaints show fear, anger & ungratefulness while calm feature requests show peace, gratefulness & understanding of a problem. Community giving of FOSS shows kindness & compassion, while taking & complaining shows an unsatisfied desire for control. True control lies in harmonising with the commu

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2014-04-28 Thread Sam Liddicott
I think people are trying provoke a post-Snowden comment from the devs or Ubuntu. This uncomfortable discussion has an important social role in establishing or restoring or writing off credibility. Pre-Snowden the official position seemed incredible, but potentially honestly held. It may even h

Re: [Bug 296867]

2014-04-28 Thread Sam Liddicott
I'm feed up of people complaining about people complaining about wilful bad security. This is doubly so considering all the criticism that has gone the way of the OpenSSL people in the wake of Heartbleed. A little more discussion there might have helped, but here it obviously hasn't! When someon

Re: [Bug 296867]

2014-04-28 Thread Ronald Pottol
Well, my issue isn't how the devs choose to spend their time, but the extremely hostile and dismissive attitude they took towards security and privacy when they have addressed this bug/feature request/feature. I haven't paid them, they are not obligated to me, I am disturbed that Ubuntu would swit

Re: [Bug 296867]

2014-04-28 Thread Sam Liddicott
I think most people take it for granted that telepathy devs are on the dark side - even the name of the project gives it away! Telepathy is for other people to read your thoughts. But it's bad manners to bring it up on the bug report list. On 28 Apr 2014 17:51, "Bugzi" <296...@bugs.launchpad.net>

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2014-04-18 Thread Ronald Pottol
>From comments when this first arose, the empathy developers were not interested in something that was interoperable with OTR, but might, someday, be interested in their own unique snowflake of an encryption system. I'm not a coder, but OTR is out there, works, and plays well with others. They rea

Re: [Bug 296867]

2013-08-29 Thread Justin Alan Ryan
Individual offers of $50 on a bug report are great, but we talked of having a Kickstarter. I bet in the current climate we could raise thousands. Who is capable of taking a quarter million dollars, or 120k, or 50k, or 10k, and doing this? It happens for other crap. Why not for this awesome? On

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2013-07-23 Thread Sam Liddicott
@Bengt Lüers I agree with all your points. But none of the empathy dev want to do it. No-one who is capable of doing it wants to do it. I was just trying to summarise why that might be the case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscr

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2013-07-23 Thread Sam Liddicott
pidgin was written by problem solvers empathy is written by architects they have different itches to scratch. Those who want encryption still use pidgin. It still works. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Pander <296...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_mass_

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2013-04-12 Thread Sam Liddicott
It may be worth approaching the guy who did it for pidgin. An alternative might be to write a shim library so that pidgin plugins would work with empathy. On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Justin Alan Ryan < serial.rocks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do we have someone who can commit to doing this wor

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2013-04-11 Thread Justin Alan Ryan
Do we have someone who can commit to doing this work if funding shows up? I'm happy to help promote a kickstarter campaign. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Pablo Castellano wrote: > No deadline extension is possible, they have received a lot of > proposals. > > They told me that there will be a

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2012-03-28 Thread Sam Liddicott
Can some paypal help? I'm clean out of time... Is the nearly-done code committed anywhere? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 Title: empathy needs to support OTR

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2011-07-26 Thread Marcus Haslam
I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 14 Apr 2011, at 04:34, mitzip <296...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Jordan, > > Is there any hope to get it in the final release of 11.04? That > would be > awesome!! The first Ubuntu release with OTR in empathy I'll be > switching > my business and f

Re: Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2011-07-26 Thread Marcus Haslam
I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 14 Apr 2011, at 07:12, Jordan Farrell <296...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Actually, it would be impossible to have made the cut for 11.04 just > because the day I started the project I would have only had two weeks > to get something pushed through an

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2011-07-26 Thread Marcus Haslam
I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 5 May 2011, at 01:27, Mark M <296...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I've been tracking this bug over the years and am very happy to hear > momentum is gaining. I'd humbly like to put forward a use case that > may > or may not affect how the implementatio

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2011-04-13 Thread Jordan Farrell
Actually, it would be impossible to have made the cut for 11.04 just because the day I started the project I would have only had two weeks to get something pushed through and then approved for the code freeze date. However I am shooting for 11.10 and I now have two more people that will be helping

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2011-04-11 Thread Stephen Birch
Thanks ... lots of people want OTR in empathy. Steve On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Jordan Farrell <296...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > David, their is no more resistance among the developers. I am working on > it, but for this month my time is still limited. But by mid May I will > have a lot

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2010-11-08 Thread ubudog
We need to have this by Natty. That would be awesome. > We still do not have this? > I want to program it. Please one of the developers contact me. I will work this and I will code it, I will also make sure that all of my code meets your exact specifications. I am serious. > I am getting my degree

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2010-10-30 Thread Stephen Birch
Yes ... this is important imho On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Allen Lowe wrote: > I can confirm that there ought to be some sort of standardized > encryption available in empathy. It appears that the upstream developers > have considered this. I suppose it's just a matter of waiting at this >

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2010-08-04 Thread ubudog
Yeah, that's the only reason why I still use Pidgin. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM, frederyk <296...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > still no OTR support?! :( > > -- > empathy needs to support OTR encryption > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296867 > You received this bug notification because you a

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2010-06-16 Thread Ronald Pottol
Heck, I cannot even figure out how to have Empathy support multiple statuses! One status, for all accounts, or perhaps that is just from the way Ubuntu integrated it. Some accounts I want to be invisible, I don't want to have a flippant status for work, etc. Ron On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:25 PM, M

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2010-03-29 Thread Ronald Pottol
As I recall, Empathy feels the world should be fixed. This would be nice, but it is a long ways off. So, yes, they have switched the default IM to empathy, which has no real plans to support encryption in the foreseeable future (xmmp crypto someday?), but Pidgin/OTR will remain installable. Of cour

Re: [Bug 296867] Re: empathy needs to support OTR encryption

2009-11-09 Thread Dennis Craven
Okay we get it. OTR is important to everyone and everyone thinks it's bad that it's the default IM client in Ubuntu. The fact remains that these comments are of no use in a bug report (neither is this one for that matter). The relevant developers are working on this bug and also get the point. Wha