Comment 8 for bug 256478

Nice quote by Paul Kishimoto on the related bug on GNOME bugzilla:

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So the following have all been mentioned:

People (0.0.6 release two years old, https://launchpad.net/people-core)
Soylent (no commits for 20+ months, http://git.gnome.org/browse/soylent)
Galago (unmaintained, per comment #19)
EDS-feed (unmaintained, per comment #19)
EDS-sync (apparently no releases in 2+ years? http://vcs.maemo.org/svn/eds/trunk/eds-sync/ChangeLog)
GNOME Online Desktop (apparently not actively developed)

...unless there is better evidence that these are or will become usable, that leaves:
* No outside library to wait on,
* One developer who thinks "metacontacts like in pidgin" are "stupid", and
* 50+ others (including https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392507 & duplicates) who want such "stupid" metacontacts.

I would grant that, *if* any of the above projects actually was usable, they would be a better solution than Pidgin-style contact grouping. No one has explained how contact grouping is worse than no contact grouping.