Comment 26 for bug 296867

"priority" is the priority that we, the current Telepathy developers, give to implementing OTR. If it's a high priority for *you*, you're welcome to implement it, or hire someone to implement it; but it's not a high priority for *us*, and so it stays priority=low in Bugzilla.

I think helping the XMPP Standards people to provide end-to-end encryption (implementing <http://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/xtls.html> or something like it, and advancing it to Recommended status) is a much better use of developer time; it'll result in a better protocol, with a well-defined security model, that does not conflict with the protocol's normal extensibility mechanisms.