Comment 14 for bug 89431

Alot of people are frustrated with the lack of a working jingle-capable XMPP client in release versions of ubuntu.

What's the near-term direction for IM on Ubuntu? Is the Ubuntu team planning to replace the default clients gaim/kopete with telepathy in an upcoming release? If so, is empathy the officially-blessed telepathy-based client for gnome which will replace gaim?

How can someone like myself get involved upstream?

I would like to help if possible since it is clear that devs/maintainers are spread rather thin in the RT comms area right now (big ideas, but too many projects going at once)

If there is some jingle-capable client for which the support is somewhat stable upstream (kopete, empathy, or other) perhaps we could build some alternative debs for gutsy.

I know all the devs are super-busy, and this is free software, but to me no jingle = ubuntu broken.