[Foundation] JIGs and JEEPs
David Waite
dwaite at jabber.com
Thu May 24 19:30:21 CDT 2001
Rahul Dave wrote:
>So, if I understand it right, projects may want but dont need to use JIG's and
>JEEP's and such. Thats good, as each person will have their own style.
>
>Providing the "JabberForge" functionality is great too. Will jabelin use this?
>I hope so, as it will set the pace for things...jabber.org as David says will
>probably host this, right?
>
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>Stpeter wrote:
>
>>All coding projects will be separate from the Foundation. However, the
>>Foundation may provide infrastructure for Jabber-related projects, such
>>as CVS, mailman, etc. Kind of a "JabberForge". :) So Jabelin, JPS (the
>>mythical Jabber Perl Server), transports, clients, and so on would have
>>their separate sites but might use resources at jabber.org.
>>
>>At least that's how I understand it.
>>
Hmm, wouldn't it make a bit more sense for the Jabelin project to fill
this role, though? I just don't want the current 1.4 soon-to-be-Jabelin
server to be confused as a reference implementation of the server, and I
wouldn't want the Jabber Foundation to be geared towards either open or
closed-source endeavors. Perhaps others feel differently? :-)
On the original announcement page (http://jabber.org/?oid=1309), the
only goals I really see for that is for 'dissemination', being listings
of server, component, client etc. implementations. I can especially
agree with this for protocol-enhancing JIGs wishing to let people know
what projects claim to implement the protocol drafts. What I don't want
is for a JIG to be directly producing a 'binary standard', where people
have to read sourcecode or probe features with a client to discover how
things are supposed to interact.
Again assuming we aren't pushing open-source implementations over
closed-source ones, it could be conceived as a promotion of a particular
product by providing local hosting to it on the Jabber foundation's
machines or domain.
-David Waite
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