On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 at 14:23, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> i think it would be good to have at least one jabber server in the
> distribution.
The problem with jabberd is at the moment, that 2.0s11 is so old and
lacks so many recent features, that probably nobody who seriously runs
a jabber server would want to use it.
OTOH, the new development team which started working on jabberd around
the turn of the year is following a very agressive "release early,
release often" policy (12 releases in 2007, 6 alone in July), which is
not really compatible with the release cycle of the distribution.
So, the options are:
1. Keep an old release, wich probably nobody will use.
2. Go with the most recent version of a currently rapidly moving
target, which will probably be outdated even before 10.3 gets
released, and have to maintain it for the next two years.
3. Maintain jabberd in the build service, where we cal always offer
the latest version, so that users can immediately take advantage of
the upstream development.
My vote as somebody who runs a jabber server goes to option 3, so that
I can put my effort into the official version of the package instead
of maintaining my own copy.
cu
Reinhard
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