The big benefit of having an Infrastructure-Gang that can administer a jabber server (or several virtual ones) is that more than one person can fix it if it breaks. I could also foresee an irc bot that resides on an XO somewhere and lets the Infrastructure-Gang irc channel (#olpc-admin) know if the server goes down.
For those of you who have accounts on RT, please add your comments on ticket: http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19413 I totally believe that this is a task that our crack volunteer squad can handle as a community. Let's make it happen. --S On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Sameer Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seth Woodworth wrote: > > I cleaned up some of the Jabber pages on the wiki last night: > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Jabber > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Run_a_Jabber_Server > > > > I also added a wiki navigation header in a template: {{jabber}} > > > > My plan/goal was to provide ''Running a Jabber Server'' as an open > > task to the Volunteer Infrastructure-Gang. I think that running a > > really solid vmware (or zen) instance of ejabbered would be a really > > simple and useful task for volunteers to work on. > > > > I second this. Having a good VM with ejabberd preconfigured (plus > instructions, of course) would be great! For example, grandma's LAMP > (http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/581) is a Ubuntu 6.06.1 > based LAMP development environment. I use it all the time to stage sites > that need maintenance or tweaking. Having a canned solution reduces the > barrier to entry for running servers. > > Sameer > > -- > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. > Associate Professor of Information Systems > San Francisco State University > San Francisco CA 94132 USA > http://verma.sfsu.edu/ > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ > > > > The best first step (IMO) would be to recruit for the > > Infrastructure-Gang to better support public tools created and > > maintained by the community. > > > > --S > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Morgan Collett > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > The default jabber server in jhbuild, olpc.collabora.co.uk > > <http://olpc.collabora.co.uk>, isn't > > usable at the moment since it is being used to test Gadget - so it > > doesn't have a shared roster. > > > > Many of the community servers aren't working. The issue is that their > > databases become overloaded once too many people register, and so > they > > need to periodically have their databases cleaned (see > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration#Tips) > > > > We need a machine that developers can use, with someone taking an > > interest in its uptime. jabber.laptop.org > > <http://jabber.laptop.org>'s been hosed for a long > > time. > > > > I'm happy to set up a machine and run it, and provide instructions > for > > others to poke it when I'm asleep, if someone can arrange a VM for me > > with hardy. I have the jabber server running on my laptop, but that's > > behind NAT and a very long thin (expensive) pipe. > > > > Regards > > Morgan > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > >
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