On 24/06/13 13:44, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we have not been doing a good work at supporting other protocols than
> IRC and XMPP with Pidgin in Tails. E.g. MSN has been known broken for
> years, and not much happened on this front since then. We're also
> receiving reports of other protocols being broken, and we lack energy
> to investigate.
>
> I'd rather see us slightly limit the scope of what we're trying to
> achieve, and do it better.
>
> So, I hereby propose:
>
> (1) We immediately stop supporting protocols other than IRC and XMPP
> with Pidgin in Tails. This means we *remove* from Tails the shared
> libraries that implement these protocols.
>
> (2) From now on, we apply the following conditions to add a new
> protocol back:
> a) someone volunteers to maintain the corresponding support in
> Tails on the long term;
> b) it's been successfully tested in Tails;
> c) someone has verified that its security record (including open
> bugs in the Pidgin BTS) does not seem too scary.
>
> Deadline if nobody objects: July 1st at noon CEST.
I'm fine with that. Once this is done we should document this on
https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/pidgin/. That way, we
might get more people to do the work for other protocols.
