[Server-devel] Gadget on XS

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Walter Bender<walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> We plan to set up a server tomorrow at the Gardner School. Can you point to
> those instructions you followed to your success?

The question is, IMO: what does gadget do better? The best I
understand is that when there are many XOs it can show a random subset
in your network view. That is all that is _implemented_ at the moment.
It may show promise but what we have is this.

And I don't find "a random subset" very compelling. The patches I've
done for ejabberd + moodle make a lot more sense, IMHO. And scale a
ton more because Moodle feeds a bit of data to ejabberd and gets the
hell out of the way. It's not clear to me how ejabberd+Gadget
(erlang+python) scale in terms of memory, resource contention and CPU.

Frankly, I'd love to get rid of my ejabberd patches. Right now, I'm
doubtful that Gadget will satisfy the Sugar team's expectations.

Unless Gadget has moved forward considerable in the last 3 months, or
if it's generally just more advanced than I think it is.

cheers,



m
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