Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-09-03 Thread Tomasz Sterna
On czw, 2010-08-26 at 10:37 +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: This is the case with jabberd2. Not really, it still has the bugs it had years ago that made me move to ejabberd. And ejabberd still has the bugs that made me move to Prosody :(. Every software have bugs. There are just bugs that

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-09-03 Thread Tomasz Sterna
On czw, 2010-08-26 at 10:16 -0400, Stephen Pendleton wrote: I agree, PEP support isn't so great on the major server platforms. For example Openfire's implementation has a memory leak. I think PEP is one differentiating factor for XMPP. It would be nice to have solid, dependable support in all

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-09-03 Thread Tomasz Sterna
On czw, 2010-08-26 at 12:35 -0400, Stephen Pendleton wrote: Also, if ejabberd doesn't want to provide proper PEP support then you should just remove it as a listed feature. A missing feature is better than a broken one. This may be a design flaw of the JEP/XEP process itself. XEPs are not

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin Smith
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Tomasz Sterna to...@xiaoka.com wrote: On czw, 2010-08-26 at 12:35 -0400, Stephen Pendleton wrote: Also, if ejabberd doesn't want to provide proper PEP support then you should just remove it as a listed feature. A missing feature is better than a broken one.

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Pendleton
-Original Message- From: jdev-boun...@jabber.org [mailto:jdev-boun...@jabber.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Sterna Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:04 AM To: Jabber/XMPP software development list Subject: Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP? One may wonder whether low penetration of PEP

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-30 Thread Remko Tronçon
Hi Evgeniy, noone cares about implementations feedback anymore, it is much more funny to flame implementation wars instead of make all implementations happy. IMO, the primary goal of the XSF (and any XMPP software project) is making XMPP users happy. Unable to implement/scale protocols means

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-30 Thread Evgeniy Khramtsov
30.08.2010 23:06, Remko Tronçon wrote: Hi Evgeniy, Hello :) IMO, the primary goal of the XSF (and any XMPP software project) is making XMPP users happy. Unable to implement/scale protocols means bad experiences, means unhappy users, so we *definitely* care about implementation feedback.

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-28 Thread Stephen Pendleton
-Original Message- From: jdev-boun...@jabber.org [mailto:jdev-boun...@jabber.org] On Behalf Of Mathias Ertl Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 11:49 AM To: jdev@jabber.org Subject: Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP? To be fair, Stephen Pendleton claimed earlier in this thread

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Evgeniy Khramtsov
27.08.2010 02:47, Dave Cridland wrote: On Thu Aug 26 15:41:29 2010, Evgeniy Khramtsov wrote: Lots of bugs in PEP server implementations are because the XEP itself is written poorly. It doesn't scale: the idea of keeping resources and features of every user from every server on the planet is

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Aug 27 10:00:07 2010, Evgeniy Khramtsov wrote: 27.08.2010 02:47, Dave Cridland wrote: On Thu Aug 26 15:41:29 2010, Evgeniy Khramtsov wrote: Lots of bugs in PEP server implementations are because the XEP itself is written poorly. It doesn't scale: the idea of keeping resources and

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin Smith
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Evgeniy Khramtsov xramt...@gmail.com wrote: snip 3) for S2S users a server sends PEP message blindly to bare JID. snip Doesn't this cause issues for any user on a standard server? It seems to me that this is going to be a potentially major issue for e.g.

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Evgeniy Khramtsov
27.08.2010 23:01, Kevin Smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Evgeniy Khramtsovxramt...@gmail.com wrote: snip 3) for S2S users a server sends PEP message blindly to bare JID. snip Doesn't this cause issues for any user on a standard server? It seems to me that this is going

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Remko Tronçon
XEP doesn't forbid such behaviour, as I posted above. Hmm, we need to make it explicit that this is forbidden then. The whole reason that PEP exists was to avoid spamming of extended presence. Thanks for pointing out that this wasn't 100% clear in the spec. cheers, Remko

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Matthew Wild
2010/8/27 Remko Tronçon re...@el-tramo.be: XEP doesn't forbid such behaviour, as I posted above. Hmm, we need to make it explicit that this is forbidden then. The whole reason that PEP exists was to avoid spamming of extended presence. Thanks for pointing out that this wasn't 100% clear in

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Evgeniy Khramtsov
27.08.2010 23:14, Remko Tronçon wrote: XEP doesn't forbid such behaviour, as I posted above. Hmm, we need to make it explicit that this is forbidden then. The whole reason that PEP exists was to avoid spamming of extended presence. Thanks for pointing out that this wasn't 100% clear in

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Matthew Wild
On 27 August 2010 16:12, Evgeniy Khramtsov xramt...@gmail.com wrote: 27.08.2010 23:14, Remko Tronçon wrote: XEP doesn't forbid such behaviour, as I posted above. Hmm, we need to make it explicit that this is forbidden then. The whole reason that PEP exists was to avoid spamming of extended

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Evgeniy Khramtsov
28.08.2010 01:18, Matthew Wild wrote: On 27 August 2010 16:12, Evgeniy Khramtsovxramt...@gmail.com wrote: Good move, Remko. Now ejabberd will violate your synthetic rules for sure. I'm completely disappointed in XSF: noone cares about implementations feedback anymore, it is much more

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Mathias Ertl
On 08/27/2010 05:18 PM, Matthew Wild wrote: Do you have a better solution that doesn't have the issues your implementation has? All we want are working specifications, and that's what we're aiming to develop. The only cries I've heard that PEP doesn't scale seem to be coming from folk

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Matthew Wild
Hi Mathias, On 27 August 2010 16:48, Mathias Ertl m...@fsinf.at wrote: On 08/27/2010 05:18 PM, Matthew Wild wrote: Do you have a better solution that doesn't have the issues your implementation has? All we want are working specifications, and that's what we're aiming to develop. The only

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Waqas Hussain
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Evgeniy Khramtsov xramt...@gmail.com wrote: 28.08.2010 01:18, Matthew Wild wrote: On 27 August 2010 16:12, Evgeniy Khramtsovxramt...@gmail.com  wrote: Good move, Remko. Now ejabberd will violate your synthetic rules for sure. I'm completely disappointed in

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Evgeniy Khramtsov
28.08.2010 02:36, Waqas Hussain wrote: Let's see.. 1M PEP nodes, with say.. 1K subscribers each. And server2 has max 2M resources. On top, let's assume 10K different client configurations (i.e., 10K caps hashes). Here's what it might look like in Prosody: 1. A table of strings with all JIDs

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Am 27.08.2010 um 17:48 schrieb Mathias Ertl: To be fair, Stephen Pendleton claimed earlier in this thread there is a memory leak in Openfire. Jonathan Schleifer claimed that PEP is not supported in jabberd1 and jabberd2, the latter still

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-27 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Am 27.08.2010 um 18:58 schrieb Evgeniy Khramtsov: Of course, I'm not in a very comfortable position, because it is not so simple to count traffic, but nowadays I can't say if the overhead will be really great because of TLS-compressed links

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-26 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Am 10.08.2010 um 19:05 schrieb Tomasz Sterna: Dnia 2010-07-10, sob o godzinie 22:33 -0700, Matt Mason pisze: It could be that no updates = stability! This is the case with jabberd2. It reached stability and I do not touch it unless I have

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-26 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Aug 26 09:37:00 2010, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: Also, stability in XMPP would only be possible if there would be stability in the protocol ;). A lot changed in the past years. Well, that's certainly true. Even XEPs that have been defined for years are only just being implemented, and

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-26 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Am 26.08.2010 um 11:04 schrieb Dave Cridland: Servers not implementing these XEPs, and/or not updating their implementations as we learn more about the operational aspects, are going to be left behind to at least some degree. Which is

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Pendleton
-Original Message- From: jdev-boun...@jabber.org [mailto:jdev-boun...@jabber.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Schleifer Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:25 AM To: Jabber/XMPP software development list Subject: Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP? Which is already true for jabberd1

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-26 Thread Evgeniy Khramtsov
27.08.2010 00:16, Stephen Pendleton wrote: I agree, PEP support isn't so great on the major server platforms. For example Openfire's implementation has a memory leak. I think PEP is one differentiating factor for XMPP. It would be nice to have solid, dependable support in all the major platforms

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Pendleton
Lots of bugs in PEP server implementations are because the XEP itself is written poorly. It doesn't scale: the idea of keeping resources and features of every user from every server on the planet is completely insane. Don't be surprised if you see memory leaks - they are by design :) Not

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-26 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Aug 26 15:41:29 2010, Evgeniy Khramtsov wrote: 27.08.2010 00:16, Stephen Pendleton wrote: I agree, PEP support isn't so great on the major server platforms. For example Openfire's implementation has a memory leak. I think PEP is one differentiating factor for XMPP. It would be nice to

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-18 Thread Oleg Motienko
Hi, As you can see, people Russian Federation, Czech Republic and Ukraine use Jabber/XMPP widely. As a resident of Russia, I can confirm that many large projects started own IM servers based on XMPP (for example: yandex.ru, qip.ru/rbc.ru, vkontakte.ru/vk.com etc). Users just using that services

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-10 Thread Tomasz Sterna
Dnia 2010-07-10, sob o godzinie 22:33 -0700, Matt Mason pisze: It could be that no updates = stability! This is the case with jabberd2. It reached stability and I do not touch it unless I have to. It is just steadily pumping packets in the background. :-) -- Tomasz Sterna Instant Messaging

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-08-10 Thread herve . fayolle
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Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-14 Thread Gao Deng
**check out this http://www.gaodeng.me/?p=3 On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 July 2010 22:39, Yves Goergen nospam.l...@unclassified.de wrote: Hi there, Today I noticed that there hasn't been an update to the Openfire Jabber server in more than

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Aurich
On 2010-07-14 19:08, Gao Deng wrote: **check out this http://www.gaodeng.me/?p=3 Not to nitpick, but putting them both on the same scale is more illustrative: http://www.google.com/trends?q=xmpp,jabber ~Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/12/10 1:58 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: On Mon Jul 12 19:43:00 2010, Bill de hÓra wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:03 +0100, Dave Cridland wrote: A well defined mobile XMPP profile seems like a good idea, instead of grab bagging various XEPs and trying them out. Once there was an optimal

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-13 Thread Jason Fritcher
On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: It's not that XML is power hungry (streaming parses do ok cpu wise), it's that XMPP/XML eats bandwidth and the chatiness (no pun intended) of XMPP when people aren't saying anything will tend to keep to impact the phone radio (and thus the

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/13/10 2:04 PM, Jason Fritcher wrote: On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: It's not that XML is power hungry (streaming parses do ok cpu wise), it's that XMPP/XML eats bandwidth and the chatiness (no pun intended) of XMPP when people aren't saying anything will tend to keep

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-13 Thread Bill de hÓra
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 14:06 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 7/13/10 2:04 PM, Jason Fritcher wrote: On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: It's not that XML is power hungry (streaming parses do ok cpu wise), it's that XMPP/XML eats bandwidth and the chatiness (no pun

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/13/10 2:26 PM, Bill de hÓra wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 14:06 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 7/13/10 2:04 PM, Jason Fritcher wrote: On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: It's not that XML is power hungry (streaming parses do ok cpu wise), it's that XMPP/XML eats

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-12 Thread Dave Cridland
On Sat Jul 10 22:39:23 2010, Yves Goergen wrote: Sometime in the last decade I saw a more or less great momentum towards open IM standards, with Google Talk and GMX/web.de introducing XMPP services or Apple iChat supporting the protocol. Recently, Facebook also joined the club (without s2s

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-12 Thread Nicolas Vérité
My take: http://www.google.fr/trends?q=xmpp No XMPP ain't dyin'... ;-) On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:03, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: On Sat Jul 10 22:39:23 2010, Yves Goergen wrote: Sometime in the last decade I saw a more or less great momentum towards open IM standards, with Google

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-12 Thread Jonathan Dickinson
-- From: Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:54 AM To: Jabber/XMPP software development list jdev@jabber.org Subject: Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP? On 10 July 2010 22:39, Yves Goergen nospam.l...@unclassified.de

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-12 Thread Jonathan Dickinson
-- From: Jonathan Dickinson jonat...@dickinsons.co.za Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 2:37 PM To: Jabber/XMPP software development list jdev@jabber.org Subject: Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-12 Thread Nicolas Vérité
wrote: -- From: Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:54 AM To: Jabber/XMPP software development list jdev@jabber.org Subject: Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP? On 10 July 2010 22:39, Yves Goergen nospam.l

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-12 Thread Bill de hÓra
On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:03 +0100, Dave Cridland wrote: 5) In terms of Google specifically - Google is a large, broad-based, company with a momentum all of its own. Very much like Microsoft, it's important to remain objective when looking at what they're doing. So while Google have

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-12 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon Jul 12 19:43:00 2010, Bill de hÓra wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:03 +0100, Dave Cridland wrote: 5) In terms of Google specifically - Google is a large, broad-based, company with a momentum all of its own. Very much like Microsoft, it's important to remain objective when looking

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-11 Thread Neil Stevens
On Jul 10, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Matt Mason wrote: It could be that no updates = stability! I know for me, the more often something demands I update, the less likely I am to recommend it to anyone. -- Neil Stevens - n...@hakubi.us If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-10 Thread Kevin Smith
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Yves Goergen nospam.l...@unclassified.de wrote: Today I noticed that there hasn't been an update to the Openfire Jabber server in more than 14 months, where 2007 and 2008 have been very active years. There's still a lot of open issues in the project. In the

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-10 Thread Matthew Wild
On 10 July 2010 22:39, Yves Goergen nospam.l...@unclassified.de wrote: Hi there, Today I noticed that there hasn't been an update to the Openfire Jabber server in more than 14 months, where 2007 and 2008 have been very active years. There's still a lot of open issues in the project. In the

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-10 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/10/10 4:54 PM, Matthew Wild wrote: On 10 July 2010 22:39, Yves Goergen nospam.l...@unclassified.de wrote: Hi there, Today I noticed that there hasn't been an update to the Openfire Jabber server in more than 14 months, where 2007 and 2008 have been very active years. There's still a lot

Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-10 Thread Matt Mason
It could be that no updates = stability! I have spent the last year developing an XMPP Server and client in a non-IM space commercially and our group seems to find new uses for them springing up all the time. It's honestly a difficult sell when people hear the word IM; the idea is often