Request: Jabber server for developers

[Sameer Verma]

Seth Woodworth wrote:
> I cleaned up some of the Jabber pages on the wiki last night:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Jabber
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_Jabber_Servers
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Run_a_Jabber_Server
>
> I also added a wiki navigation header in a template: {{jabber}}
>
> My plan/goal was to provide ''Running a Jabber Server'' as an open
> task to the Volunteer Infrastructure-Gang.  I think that running a
> really solid vmware (or zen) instance of ejabbered would be a really
> simple and useful task for volunteers to work on.
>

I second this. Having a good VM with ejabberd preconfigured (plus
instructions, of course) would be great! For example, grandma's LAMP
(http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/581) is a Ubuntu 6.06.1
based LAMP development environment. I use it all the time to stage sites
that need maintenance or tweaking. Having a canned solution reduces the
barrier to entry for running servers.

Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/


> The best first step (IMO) would be to recruit for the
> Infrastructure-Gang to better support public tools created and
> maintained by the community.
>
> --S
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Morgan Collett
> <morgan.collett at gmail.com <mailto:morgan.collett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The default jabber server in jhbuild, olpc.collabora.co.uk
>     <http://olpc.collabora.co.uk>, isn't
>     usable at the moment since it is being used to test Gadget - so it
>     doesn't have a shared roster.
>
>     Many of the community servers aren't working. The issue is that their
>     databases become overloaded once too many people register, and so they
>     need to periodically have their databases cleaned (see
>     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ejabberd_Configuration#Tips)
>
>     We need a machine that developers can use, with someone taking an
>     interest in its uptime. jabber.laptop.org
>     <http://jabber.laptop.org>'s been hosed for a long
>     time.
>
>     I'm happy to set up a machine and run it, and provide instructions for
>     others to poke it when I'm asleep, if someone can arrange a VM for me
>     with hardy. I have the jabber server running on my laptop, but that's
>     behind NAT and a very long thin (expensive) pipe.
>
>     Regards
>     Morgan
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