On Jan 3, 2016 22:31, "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanzaro@gnome.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 16:25 -0600, Pete Travis wrote:
> > What do you think about the idea of leaving IRC in goa, and if a user
> > adds
> > an IRC account there,  either install the preferred client for them
> > or pull
> > them over to a Software view of compatible clients?
>
> I will defer to Debarshi on this, since I think he was hoping to remove
> IRC from g-o-a anyway....
>
> Keep in mind this affects more than IRC, but also the dozen other
> protocols supported by Telepathy, most importantly SIP and XMPP. Also,
> Google Chat.
>
> Michael
> --

I've taken a glance at the code involved ; it sounds like you're talking about the removal of the entire 'chat' category for accounts from goa.  Is this the case, Debarshi? 

I would personally be disappointed to see that go away, as a user of the protocols, because IRC is Fedora's interactive support venue, and because I think XMPP has value as a federated communication mechanism that deserves more prevalence.

--Pete