Hi Martin and everyone.

I would like to take over the KDE Telepathy maintainership.

I understand that Telepathy is a huge and complex project that needs a
lot of manpower to actually come back, but there is no other project
with the same goals and capabilities. For me, Telepathy is not the
exact specification, but an idea of IM system with replaceable
components that give you a freedom to combine whatever you want across
operation systems, desktop environments, and programming languages
with the best rate of shared code and system integration.

I can spend two hours and write a long list of reasons why Telepathy
is the right thing to do, but please let me spend this time on the
development to prove my arguments by deed and not by words.
On the other hand, I don't want to fail someone's expectations, so
please continue to not expect much. :)

I think that in the current era of proprietary IM services, such
integrated and yet distributed solution has a chance to prove itself
with open protocols such as Matrix, Telegram (MTProto), XMPP, Tox,
Slack, IRC, SIP (reSIProcate), Gitter, Rocket.Chat, Signal, Discord
and so on. For sure the list can meet the demands of some users.

I have interest, ideas, experience, and prototypes. Now I have some
time to start checking out features one by one. I'm already a
maintainer of TelepathyQt (I released the last three versions), but
the library and services mean nothing without a client. I have some
pending reviews for 10 months [1] and if nobody reviews them then
maybe it will be right to become a maintainer and start to land them.

As a maintainer, I'll also take responsibility for bug fixing (as a
start I committed three bug fixes at the last three days).

P.S.: If you're going to support Matrix then please, please! develop a
good library. I don't want to offend anyone, but QMatrixClient needs a
lot of improvements and maybe you can help. With a good library (such
as QXmpp) a Telepathy service implementation would consist of about 2k
lines of code.

[1] https://phabricator.kde.org/D12751