Hey, On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 10:03 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > Hi all, > > I think it's clear from the recent thread that most people had > no idea we had a Jabber server, or that they could get accounts > on it, or how to go about doing so. > > What's more, over the last week, I tried to help two people use > their jabber.gnome.org accounts with no success. > > I think it's unfair to judge the popularity of this service when > it has been so buried and so extremely difficult to use. > > It also seems we can't create group chats on jabber.gnome.org, > which limits our ability to use it as an official channel for > GNOME teams. > > I propose that we address these issues to give Jabber a fair > shake. We can then reevaluate its popularity in six months.
As I already mentioned privately, I don't think the admins want to have to maintain the OpenFire Jabber server. First, as Olav mentioned, there's no SSL support for a service where you would expect privacy. Furthermore, I would expect the security concerns of running such a big service on GNOME servers to be a burden on the admins. Why not get the GNOME jabber service (co-)hosted somewhere else, where it would be possible to add the features you want? Cheers _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
