Hi, In order to comply with the XEP 0176, telepathy MUST assume the controlling role (property controlling-mode to true) when it's the initiator, and the controlled role when it's not. http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0176.html#protocol-checks
This was fixed back in version 0.0.8
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