On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 09:26 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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.
Is this just because we chose a particularly bad Jabber server? I have a hard time believing nobody's figured this out yet. Incidentally, SSL doesn't work on our IRC network. So I get to send my password in plain text to register with our new bot. > Why not get the GNOME jabber service (co-)hosted somewhere else, where > it would be possible to add the features you want? What would we have to do on the GNOME side to allow this? -- Shaun _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
