Development Team/Collaboration Refactoring

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Introduction

During the 0.90 release cycle, Collabora is sponsoring the refactoring of the presence and collaboration framework in Sugar with the following objectives:

  • reduce the dependency on deprecated or soon to be deprecated parts of the Telepathy spec,
  • improve interoperability with other messaging systems,
  • make it easier to implement further collaboration features, often developed for other systems.

The strategy that will be followed can be summarized as turning Sugar into a normal Telepathy client.

Instead of implementing these changes inside Sugar's Presence Service, we are going to remove this layer because of the unneeded complexity that it brings and because several of the services it provides are either obsoleted or replaced by new components in the Telepathy framework. See Development Team/Presence Service Removal for details.

Tasks

Reimplement presence in the Shell

Account configuration in the control panel

Sending and accepting subscription requests

Adding an arbitrary contact to our contact list

Avatars support

Merge Salut and Gabble contacts in the UI (?)

Reimplement sugar.presence without the PS

Implement compatibility PS based on sugar.presence (?)