Re: jabber.gnome.org: a proposal

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Hey,

On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 10:03 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think it's clear from the recent thread that most people had
> no idea we had a Jabber server, or that they could get accounts
> on it, or how to go about doing so.
>
> What's more, over the last week, I tried to help two people use
> their jabber.gnome.org accounts with no success.
>
> I think it's unfair to judge the popularity of this service when
> it has been so buried and so extremely difficult to use.
>
> It also seems we can't create group chats on jabber.gnome.org,
> which limits our ability to use it as an official channel for
> GNOME teams.
>
> I propose that we address these issues to give Jabber a fair
> shake. We can then reevaluate its popularity in six months.

As I already mentioned privately, I don't think the admins want to have
to maintain the OpenFire Jabber server. First, as Olav mentioned,
there's no SSL support for a service where you would expect privacy.
Furthermore, I would expect the security concerns of running such a big
service on GNOME servers to be a burden on the admins.

Why not get the GNOME jabber service (co-)hosted somewhere else, where
it would be possible to add the features you want?

Cheers