I've been working on helping improve pidgin's security (libpurple auditing, pidgin auditing, etc) for a while. I'm really looking forward to the next release and I'd like to move for something to be added to the Windows releases: OTR

We've been developing the plugin for a long time and it would be nice if users could just install pidgin without a second step to use OTR. Adium has done this for a long time, though we don't actually maintain the full stack, only libotr, in their case.

We do maintain the plugin for pidgin-otr and libotr; so I'd like to either join the pidgin team to ensure the integration is supported in the short/medium/long term, or to keep working as I am on the OTR team with the pidgin folks.

I understand that traditionally, Pidgin hasn't shipped out of tree plugins - so I'd either like to request that I maintain it in tree or that we maintain it out of tree in a way that is useful, acceptable and results in all Pidgin users being protected as Adium users are currently protected.

Thoughts?