Jeremiad
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This is a spew by me of stuff on various topics, stuff I'm working/focusing on, whatever...
It just so happens there is a farily descriptive word close to my name: Jeremiad
Hopefully none of this gets personal, but this wasn't created for the general public either, it's for those that are helping get stuff done... so, if you continue reading, I fully expect you to jump in and help! it's only a revolution when everyone is participating, *grin*
Oh yeah, this material is likely to be outdated VERY quickly, buyer beware
PPS: just as fast as it's outdated, it's most likely not complete either, it's 4:30 am after all and who knows how far I'll get
That's right, what the heck is going on? jabber.org as a project has been a mess lately, some of the problem
has been focused 1.2 development distracting most of the team, some has been the sucky web site, some has been various
miscommunications and tensions between .org and .com, plenty of damn good reasons that are going to get fixed :)
So how are we going to fix this and get the project back on track? PARTY! erm... not really, but hey, if you feel like it, *g*.
First focus: fix the web site so we have a central flexible dynamic friendly point to start talking to the world.
Second: start talking... more status updates, better project indexing, more releases, MORE DOCS, and a major call for new developers
and more PR material and cool demos that break or leave you hanging, enticing developers to fix or complete them (they'll hopefully
pick it up and do it better or cooler than we could, and that's the point)
page containing overview of IM arch, links to jabbercentral, main clients, server releases, transports, other IM sites
|__ OS Project
| -> main index of jabber.org project listings, documentation, team, news
|__ XML Framework
| -> page with links to parts of the documentation and other ideas and projects using jabber
|__ Business
-> page with categories and links to commercial vendors and adoptions
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I was thinking something spiffy like BeBits (sans left column), almost a "yahoo" of projects or jabber development.
It would contain categories for servers, clients, IM transports, services, libraries, components, misc stuff, brainstorming, integration projects, wireless, etc.
It would also re-use the jabber.org jabber user accounts and a trust-like mechanism as there is now, to allow very fast/easy access to update
project listings and profiles, KISS principle of course.
List the various contributing personalities/bios.
links to places to find ppl (chat rooms, lists, project maintainers) and how to get involved.
dynamic list of team contributed favourite sites, books, tunes, and quotes.
simple docu mgmt system, use j.o accounts.
fetches .sgml urls (http or cvs) and creates local .html/.pdf copies (timed or demand),
makes searchable,
lists by popularity or freshness,
shows maintainer(s),
allow online editing of the .sgml and some starter base templates?
stable pthreads, more io options (integrated poll, aio), full admin and reloading, more db backends, more components, jsx
new not-parser (tokenization, dynamic-nodes), dynamic hashes, other perf tweaks
I've been wanting to do a massive "project status update" outlining lots of things, not sure if it is feasable... here is some old notes pasted in: