Hi Bernd, you have obviously my full support ! We already have welcomed FtpServer, which now has 3 committers (congrat Niklas ! Good job !) and sshd brought by Guillaume Nodet. I think that Vysper will be very comfortable in this warm MINA place :) I also think that it will help Vysper to gain visibility (ie, new committers), and will fill a hole at MINA (many users are asking about how to implement XMPP on top of MINA)
Wdyt guys ? On 4/7/09, Bernd Fondermann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi MINA folks, > > Currently I am developing a XMPP[1] server implementation at Apache > Labs[2] called Vysper[3][4] (pronounced 'whisper'). This effort is going > on on and off since 2006, but recently it gained track again and reached > some critical internal milestones (regarding to level of functionality > completed and persistence layer added). Unfortunately, I am the only > contributor to the project until now. > > A few days ago at ACEU09 I spoke to Emmanuel and he had the idea of > possibly making Vysper a sub-project of MINA. > Thanks, Emmanuel! > > I gave this a few more thoughts and started to like the idea. > So I'm starting a public discussion about it. > > The big advantages for Vysper in the MINA community would be: > + strong protocol related community, > + feel at home (Vysper uses MINA for IO), > + ability to have a dedicated ML and make releases (eventually) > + benefit from on-site MINA know-how > > The advantages for MINA could be: > + add one more emerging protocol to the MINA roster > + add one more MINA case to the project with specific interesting IO > needs under high load (hint: Twitter), > + look into optimizing support for non-line-oriented protocols > + take Vysper (the software, not the project) as a possible experimental > playground, since the IO layer should be relatively easy to change (for > example changing it to MINA 1.x, 2.x, TRUNK). > > Any thoughts on this? > > Thanks, > > Bernd > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP > [2] http://labs.apache.org > [3] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/labs/vysper > [4] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/vysper/ > -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
