On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 14:59 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > The only way it would make sense to me is if we had some expectation > > that over time that the number of users would grow to a significant > > fraction of the GNOME membership. > > I understand the maintenance burden, and that it's not worthwhile > for only a small handful of users. But it's clear from the thread > that most people didn't even know we have an XMPP server. How many > users would we have if we actually publicized it? > > I do think we should push XMPP harder and build more services on > top of it, and having a server for members can help us prototype > stuff like that. But I'm not writing the code or maintaining the > server, so meh... > I think the point is well taken that the service never really got a chance because it wasn't well advertised. I can imagine from a sysadmin perspective that XMPP would serve some interesting use cases for alerting for system events or other things or maybe build failures. I have a hard time though thinking it is a superior chat system compared to IRC. Mostly because, we have bots, we have just added some new IRC services. Plus some of us run irc under screen, giving us 24/7 access to chat so we don't miss conversations. I think XMPP has a place, but chatting isn't one of them. sri
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