[OTR-dev] the state on mpOTR?

[Guy K. Kloss]

Hi all,

in January there was quite some chatter here on mpOTR, and it seemed
like quite a few people had an interest in it.

Then there was a call for participation by Nadim to get involved on it.
I've seen that there were some messages offering to collaborate (at
least publicly on the list by Dennis and myself). It seemed like nobody
has ever acknowledged our proposal (at least I have never seen a mail).

Then there was an mpOTR project plan [0], which magically appeared on
the Cryptocat blog, without being mentioned anywhere on the OTR-dev
mailing list. I just stumbled upon it accidentally.

According to the timeline, there were supposed to be some deliverables
already by March/April (which is pretty much now), but there was
*nothing* to be heard anywhere!

I don't know how the project is supposed to be run, or what's happening.
But it seems like for a collaborative, public, community project,
something looks fishy from the outside.

We have the need for mpOTR (or something like it), and have offered help
to make it happen. Even though we need something more quickly, we wanted
to align our interims solution with the approaches and strategies of
mpOTR to avoid coming up with opposing solution. This kind of stuff is
not really possible without any transparency or involvement in the process.

So, bottom line: I'd like to know what's up with the process, where it
is, and be able to align our work with the way the mpOTR spec is evolving.

Guy


[0] https://blog.crypto.cat/2014/01/mpotr-project-plan/

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