Re: IM

Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> > Much as I hate to say it, the jabber service is almost entirely a
> > CommandPrompt thing. That's not to say we don't support the idea of
> > having one - just that the guys there (obviously not you) set it up
> > and maintain it, whilst none of the rest of us know anything about it.
> > It is documented on PMT, but unfortunately not in a particularly
> > useful way (it basically says - jabber(.postgresql.org) is a jabber
> > server!!).
> 
> As a suggestion, it can easily be made into a more community thing if
> we used Openfire.  It's got a nice web-UI and pgsql-www people could
> be made into admins who can log into said UI and more easily manage
> it.  It's also got a nice built in web based jabber client (Spark)
> which could be handy.  It also (optionally) uses PgSQL as a backend
> for buddy list storage and the like.

AFAIK it's actually OpenFire, or perhaps it's a WildFire installation
waiting to be upgraded.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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