On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Gavin M. Roy <gmr@myyearbook.com> wrote:
>> Much as I hate to say it, the jabber service is almost entirely a
>> CommandPrompt thing. That's not to say we don't support the idea of
>> having one - just that the guys there (obviously not you) set it up
>> and maintain it, whilst none of the rest of us know anything about it.
>> It is documented on PMT, but unfortunately not in a particularly
>> useful way (it basically says - jabber(.postgresql.org) is a jabber
>> server!!).
>
> As a suggestion, it can easily be made into a more community thing if
> we used Openfire. It's got a nice web-UI and pgsql-www people could
> be made into admins who can log into said UI and more easily manage
> it. It's also got a nice built in web based jabber client (Spark)
> which could be handy. It also (optionally) uses PgSQL as a backend
> for buddy list storage and the like.
We use OpenFire at work, and it rocks.
-selena
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