Facebook Chat over XMPP

[Eric Richie]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Robert Vehse <robert.vehse at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hey foiks,
>
> here's some updates regarding migration to Facebook XMPP for the ones who
> don't follow #adium-devl or Adium Trac closely:
> - Contributor William Bowling (wbowling) has hacked up a new XMPP Facebook
> account type based on the GoogleTalk one:
> http://bitbucket.org/wbowling/adium.
> - There's a script from contributor Moses Lei (mlei, paradoxmo) "to convert
> old Facebook logs to XMPP Facebook logs" in ticket #13999.
>
> We need to figure out how we want the migration to work:
>  - Do we want the migration to be automatic?

I think it would be best for our users if it could be as seamless as
possible.  I wouldn't be opposed to a dialog box or something that
informs them about what's going on during the actual conversion, but I
think it would be nice if they didn't need to do anything (if
possible).

>  - Do we want to remove the old implementation based on the plugin entirely
> or should we keep and rename it?

Based on the complaints we see on Feedback and elsewhere, it seems
like the old one isn't worth keeping for any reason. It's just one
more thing that could confuse people.  Does keeping it do anything for
us that the XMPP based Facebook account won't? I don't want to see
something that breaks as often as the current one hang around just for
nostalgia.


> Please have a look at http://trac.adium.im/ticket/13999 and comment there.
>
> Regards, Robbie
>
>