Diaspora* Support

I would love to do this, but they don't have a public API yet.

Discussion about DIaspora API :

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/749

The Diaspora* networks are in open alpha, and it appears that developers are working on an statusnet/twitter like api.

Because its licensed under aGPL, anyone can instantiate 'pods' (network nodes). Most of these federate. A user would have to choose both the Diaspora* service, and then in an "add accounts" menu, a pod, given by the domain name where that pod is hosted. There's a list of mostly public pods at the wiki on their github repo.
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Community-supported-pods.

If this list could become a discovery service that gwibber could access, it could offer that list to users under the "add accounts" functionality, so a user could add the pod he belongs to, without needing to request gwibber developers to add a separate plugin for each particular pod.

I don't know how far along the developers are to specifying their interface / API, but it would be natural for them to work with you in doing so. Free software network user-agents should support free software network services. And vice versa. Thats what people living in the free world want. :) Why should Diaspora* be contemplating iPhone apps and Gwibber be contemplating G+? Well, I suppose there're some good reasons why.

As far as I know, there wouldn't have to be a discovery service. If a user would insert his handler (e.g. <email address hidden>), Gwibber can deduce what the respective pod is from that and open an authorization window.

Anyway, how this should be implemented will probably be described in the API documentation, once it's released.

See current draft of Diaspora Api v1.
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/API-v1

would be happy to see support for this in ubuntu 12.04 ...

Especially now that the Diaspora* API is nearly here ;)
https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/API-v1

Cheers,
Randall

It'd be amazing to see support for this in the future.

Plugins can now be created out of tree, so this is a good candidate for creating a plugin. You can look at lp:gwibber-service-sina as an example, unfortunately we don't have plugin developer documentation yet. However, if you are interested in developing a plugin (shouldn't be too difficult), join us in #gwibber on FreeNode and we can try to guide you through it

This bug affects 46 people. Maybe a candidate for Ubuntu Q?

I would like to see this tackled at UDS-Q as a priority, higher than G+

i did so because the kenvandine suggest me any objections than you can talk to him.

It would be great to get diaspora support, any volunteers?