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obviously a wasted effort it seems, because the programmer disappeared.

all went fine until july 27,2011 when something snapped, and no more
updates or signs of life from the programmer (jprvita)

he kept posting on the blog and even met with telepathy programmers in
berlin, but it seems about other stuff no more work on this project, and
once again there is need for a new person to continue it.

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Title:
  empathy needs to support OTR encryption

Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
  Confirmed
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Invalid
Status in Telepathy framework - library:
  Confirmed
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “libtelepathy” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “empathy” package in Fedora:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: empathy

  Hello, 
  I just tried empathy (the Intrepid version) and it looked very solid and stable. There were a few minor things that could be improved (e.g. automatically resizing the contact list), but that is not the topic here.
  The reason why I won't switch to empathy from pidgin is the missing OTR support (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ ). This is a really important feature because no one should read your messages.
  There were others with the same idea (links at the bottom).
  Would be so great if it could support that important encryption standard.
  Thanks for helping out!

  Links:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/253452/comments/2
  http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-September/001479.html
  http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16891

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