On 7/10/10 4:54 PM, Matthew Wild wrote: > On 10 July 2010 22:39, Yves Goergen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> 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.) >> > > In the land of open-source, projects always have their ups and downs, > projects are always dying, or going into auto-pilot, but new projects > are always starting. You can have a hand in each of these :)
I've been involved with the Jabber/XMPP community since 1999 and I can't tell you how many projects and people I've seen come and go. That kind of turnover is natural. >> 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? > > I think you missed them. XMPP seems to me stronger than ever, in the > IM space, but it is also doing surprisingly well in the non-IM > use-cases, where XMPP has turned out to be a very viable platform on > which to build all kinds of realtime data-pushing apps. > > I started the Prosody project a year or two back, and we now have a > strong community, growing all the time. People are joining us all the > time, whether from other inactive servers, from non-XMPP IM platforms > or because they are looking to build new services powered by XMPP. > > Depending on where you're viewing from, progress can look slow or > inexistent. However such is always the way, XMPP was never going to > take over the world overnight (though I never stop believing it may, > it helps :) ). It takes time for people already accustomed to the > "old" ways to invest development time and effort into implementing or > switching existing infrastructure to use XMPP - so take-up always > appears to be slow. XMPP technologies have always grown organically without any major buzz, and they are still growing. But they've also matured and they're no longer a new thing, so you find more energy right now in things like social networking. That said, there are still plenty of applications that need real-time interactivity and data delivery, and plenty of people working with XMPP to build and deploy those applications. > Anyway, as I said further up... whether and how well XMPP continues to > meet its goals is up to you, me, and everyone else on this list. If > you're a developer, find a project and get contributing, if you aren't > then there are still other ways to help in the mission, see the > relatively new communications team for example: > http://xmpp.org/xsf/teams/communication/ Yep, there is always plenty to do -- specs, howtos, translations, support, bug reports, code patches, you name it. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
