Request: Jabber server for developers

[Seth Woodworth]

The big benefit of having an Infrastructure-Gang that can administer a
jabber server (or several virtual ones) is that more than one person can fix
it if it breaks.  I could also foresee an irc bot that resides on an XO
somewhere and lets the Infrastructure-Gang irc channel (#olpc-admin) know if
the server goes down.

For those of you who have accounts on RT, please add your comments on
ticket:
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19413

I totally believe that this is a task that our crack volunteer squad can
handle as a community.  Let's make it happen.

--S

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> 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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