Moving from 0.7 to 0.11 target milestone.

*** Bug 355929 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

If not anyone is working on this, I think I can spend a couple days sometime next week to try to get the feature implemented. Martyn told me that Xavier Claessens said that he's willing to work on this.

Are there plans to implement this sometime in the near future?  While I really like gossip, the inability to log into password protected group chats makes it difficult to use in my environment.

Minor update:  I edited $HOME/.gnome2/Gossip/chatrooms.xml to add the required password for the chatroom I am unable to join.  It looks like:  <chatrooms><chatroom>...<password>foo</password>...</chatroom></chatrooms>.  After restarting gossip, I am still unable to join.

Please let me know if additional information would be useful.

I implemented this this weekend.
I also spent a lot of time with the browse feature so it works a lot better and has the option to present more information to make it possible to see things like:
 - is the room locked
 - how many people are in the room
 - the room description

I also updated the Jabber backend code to be more MUC compliant and fixed a few bugs along the way.

According to the spec, chatrooms that are created are only temporary and have to be set up, you are supposed to reply to the server with "give me an instant room with all the defaults" or "give me a reserved room". With the reserved room, the server replies with a form for information to fill out, like should we lock the room, etc. For now we just send that information for the user, we don't ask. To improve this, we could make this more configurable.