Move ktp-call-ui to kdenetwork

Niels Ole Salscheider niels_ole at salscheider-online.de
Mon Dec 14 23:43:19 GMT 2015


On Monday 14 December 2015, 22:45:13 CET, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Tuesday 08 December 2015, a les 13:36:36, Diane Trout va escriure:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > ktp-call-ui is the component of KDE-Telepathy that provides support for
> > Audio/Video calls. It was previously part of the regular release in KDE4,
> > though it wasn't well maintained due to the previous maintainer losing
> > interest. Eventually with the switch to KF5 ktp-call-ui was dropped.
> > 
> > I fixed the dependence on the old version of gstreamer, and other
> > contributors ported ktp-call-ui to KF5, so it would be nice to release
> > ktp-call-ui somehow, and it might be easiest to find if it was grouped
> > with
> > the other kde-telepathy components.
> > 
> > However I do know of bugs that I haven't been able to figure out how to
> > resolve. such as it doesn't always manage to complete call setup, and the
> > current version hasn't really been tested by others.
> 
> Noone has tested it doesn't sound like "shipping quality ready" for me.

I use it occasionally for XMPP video chat and it works for me most of the 
time. But I contributed to the KF5 port so I might be biased.

I think that most of the problems that remain are in the Telepathy or 
GStreamer (Farstream) stack, but I am not sure how much activity there is for 
these nowadays.

> Are you sure we want to ship this to all our users like that? Can we maybe
> get some testing first?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > Diane
> > 
> > On Tuesday, December 08, 2015 08:53:58 PM Urs Wolfer wrote:
> > > Since this application in extragear already, it can be considered as
> > > "stable" [1].
> > > 
> > > I have never used it so far, so I cannot really decide if it's worth
> > > adding it to the KDE main modules but I also have no real objections for
> > > moving it.
> > > 
> > > Bye
> > > urs
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > https://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Application_Lifecycle#Stage_2:_Stable
> > > 
> > > On 2015-12-07 22:21, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > El Wednesday 02 December 2015, a les 20:30:11, Diane Trout va 
escriure:
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >> 
> > > >> Thanks to contributions from several people we have a build of
> > > >> ktp-call-ui
> > > >> that works with KF5 libraries. I've done some testing calling a few
> > > >> test
> > > >> call services using SIP.
> > > >> 
> > > >> ktp-call-ui commit 1e1ff29f5586861ff8454c504c6ab2cd3a7b82a7 should
> > > >> work for
> > > >> others.
> > > >> 
> > > >> Martin Klapetek suggested I email this list and ask "to move
> > > >> ktp-call-ui
> > > >> from extragear to kde/network with the target release of kde apps
> > > >> 16.04"
> > > > 
> > > > Urs what's your opinion as kdenetwork maintainer?
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > >   Albert
> > > >> 
> > > >> Diane Trout





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