On 12/03/13 13:38, Shaun McCance wrote:
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.
Openfire is fine. We (Lanedo) have had no problems with it in our time
using it.
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.
SSL works for us with Openfire - so I wonder what is configured
differently for GNOME.
Is this more about ease of configuration or security?
--
Regards,
Martyn
Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.
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