On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Yves Goergen <nospam.l...@unclassified.de> wrote: > Today I noticed that there hasn't been an update to the Openfire Jabber > server in more than 14 months, where 2007 and 2008 have been very active > years. There's still a lot of open issues in the project. In the past > years, a few Jabber projects (like legacy IM gateways or PHP libraries) > have fallen asleep for indefinite time. The Psi developers push > long-desired features further and further into the future while the > Linux package downloads fall behind in versions. (Currently their > website it only half available.) > > Sometime in the last decade I saw a more or less great momentum towards > open IM standards, with Google Talk and GMX/web.de introducing XMPP > services or Apple iChat supporting the protocol. Recently, Facebook also > joined the club (without s2s AFAIK), but I have the vague impression > that the whole thing slowly falls asleep. There hasn't been real great > leaps in the near past, or did I just miss them? Now even Google tries > to introduce yet another messaging protocol that isn't as verbose as XML > [citation needed]. > > Please don't tell me that Free Jabber is dying, because what's left > is... once again only ICQ, MSN and restrictive terms of service.
I think this could be summarised as: some of the older projects are not the new kids any more - they're either reaching maturity or being abandoned, while other new kids are showing up, and some older projects are keeping going consistently. Openfire is less active than it used to be - but Prosody has appeared as the new and trendy Free server - and I should probably plug M-Link here too! Psi is less active than it used to be - but it's not dead (it's always gone through phases), and two of the devs went off to write a new client, Swift, and this is new and (for me) exciting. I don't know the state of the PyTransports for sure - I'd heard they're static now - but Spectrum is new and active in the transports sphere. If one looks at XMPP as a whole, and not just counting the projects that are slowing down, there's still a lot of new and exciting $STUFF going on. /K _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org _______________________________________________
