On 6/12/05, Hal Rottenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Presence notification as you said. For example next to the name of > the author of a page is a graphical indicator of their jabber status. > I've seen this done using a bot to maintain the presence subscriptions > (see Edgar http://edgar.netflint.net). Any features edgar could use? This one seems pretty straight forward to me.
> * Authentication is a good one. Drupal used to have a module that > would allow you during the account login process to use your Jabber ID > as your username. And when you enter your password, it would pass it > to your jabber server to auth you. Very novel, for a GPL CMS. And if > your account didn't exist during login, it's created on-the-fly, > because of course a user ID will have to exist in Drupal's database > for permissions and stuff. Note the phrase "used to" above. It's no > longer maintained, and if I recall correctly, it would require > updating to be compatible with the current version. I for one could > really use this Drupal mod. I like this idea, but also like openid authentication. I'd really like a discussion comparing the advantages of both before I pick one. It would certainly be interesting to integrate openid into a jabber server. > * Send jabber messages (as type=headline) to subscribers to a > forum/wiki/cms when certain criteria is met, such as: new article, > article you are monitoring is changed, opt-in announcements list has a > new item. Some systems do this already (e.g. Unclassified Newsboard > http://newsboard.unclassified.de), but MW and Drupal are extremely > popular and lack this native functionality. > * You could be the first to implement a pubsub service that would mate > with a CMS. Maybe every article is exposed as a node, and users can > maintain subscriptions that way? > * Same for remote control (http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0146.html), > perhaps for administration purposes? > * Perhaps an XMPP messaging API for a CMS? It could be used by other > plugin authors for integrating IM into their sites. > * XML-RPC-style pings over Jabber that create automated links between > Wiki pages. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has "See Also: > [interwiki-link-to-server2:WikiArticleB]", and the act of saving the > article will ping server2.com and create a trackback-style entry in > the destination article. Wow, that's a good idea. Put my name in the > credits please. :) Wow. There are a ton of related ideas here. Seems cool, but would it be worthy of a jabber sponsorship? Mediawiki isn't a sponsor, but it would benefit from these ideas more than drupal, in my uniformed opinion. -- Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten 5813 E 64 Pl Tulsa, OK 74136 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 918-813-2447 p.s. Thanks Hal, I had meant to post to list _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
