Ring was renamed to Jami

[davidak]

Please rename the package and URLs accordingly.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/ring-daemon/default.nix

https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-daemon

https://jami.net/ring-becomes-jami/

https://repology.org/project/jami-daemon/history

An update would be also good, but they havn't done a proper release. https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-daemon/issues/124

cc @taeer @olynch

[davidak]

See here how to properly deprecate a package: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/62529/files

[matthiasbeyer]

Nice that there is a way to deprecate something. Not so nice that there is no documentation about how to do it.

[davidak]

@matthiasbeyer right. let's create an issue (or the documentation directly)!

[matthiasbeyer]

Yes, sure! I'm not familiar with how the process works, though.

[zeonin]

Looks like the nightly releases are hosted here: https://dl.jami.net/ring-release/tarballs/

I'm evaluating a few (lower-hanging) decentralized chat clients, but if I swing back around to Jami/Ring I'll take a crack at updating the package.

[billksun]

I'm evaluating a few (lower-hanging) decentralized chat clients, but if I swing back around to Jami/Ring I'll take a crack at updating the package.

What clients were you looking at.

[jluttine]

I'll have a look on updating the package and adding the desktop client.

I'm also interested what other decentralized chat clients @zeonin evaluated and what was the outcome?

[zeonin]

Ultimately, my use case was for real time voice over a roaming cellular data plan, so latency and bandwidth were my priorities. I ended up using mumble+murmur as that's what aligned best with my goals.

That said, the most promising decentralized chat clients I found were part of the Tox ecosystem.

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[ThibaultLemaire]

This is still relevant to me.

[bqv]

Relevant to me, too

See #83411

[StefanSchroeder]

is anybody capable to pickup the work from @doronbehar ?
@bqv
@ThibaultLemaire
@alpmestan
@jluttine

This seems to be a tough nut to crack. Many have tried. On Guix, it works.

[bqv]

I just use it using guix. I'm not going to work on this

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[alpmestan]

#83411 (comment) points to a repo with nix expressions that seem to work for @viric so in principle it's "just" a matter of polishing/organizing them a bit and making a PR against nixpkgs.