OTR and general security stuff

[Peter Lawler]

On 14/02/13 08:52, Richard Laager wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 16:46 +0100, Jurre van Bergen wrote:
>
>> I was thinking, perhaps it's interesting for the Pidgin project to have
>> a few or one student(s) working this summer (GSOC) on "securing"
>> Pidgin/LibPurple?
> I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'm skeptical that this kind of highly
> skilled work is something that GSoC students could reasonably help with.
>
>
My concern on using GSOC students for critical stuff like this is that 
those who gain the skills 'securing' Pidgin/libpurple would then leave 
and the project may be in the position of not really having a completed 
task, poorly documented etc., despite best intentions of the mentor and 
others within the project to see the GSOC student complete their task. 
This has happened before.

Pete.