[Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> Why is it such a bad idea?
>
> The thought was to do away with registration, moodle and other
> unnecessary services and focus only on the XMPP server.

You want to run a network of federated XMPP servers? It's madness.

Rather, it's not madness, but until demonstrated/automated otherwise
it's a high-maintenance-per-classroom setup. And the federated XMPP
stuff isn't widely used ==> widely tested.

We get obvious and clear bugs in parts of the XMPP implementation that
are used (or should be used) _everywhere_. And this is on what is
reportedly the best XMPP implementation available. My appetite for
putting an exotic feature into use in the _middle_ of a deployment
plan is... just not there.

In any case, what's the upside of one-XS-per-classroom? Cost,
administration, reliance on federated-XMPP all seem downsides/risks to
me.

cheers,



m
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