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There are attempts at creating an XMPP compliance suite[0], but the biggest problem is actually a lack of volunteers / money to improve the clients and servers.
by ge0rg 10y ago
There are attempts at creating an XMPP compliance suite[0], but the biggest problem is actually a lack of volunteers / money to improve the clients and servers. Conversations is driven by one full time developer, most other applications are hobby projects.
[0] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0375.html http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0375.html
- digi_owl 10y agoIt was a real sad day when Facebook and Google decided that proprietary was the way to go...
- ariwilson 10y agoThe writing was on the wall before that, though. WhatsApp was eating everyone's lunch and Facebook / Google wanted to move faster and own the messaging space.
- bigbugbag 10y agoAfaik facebook was designed to be a closed walled garden from the get go and never offered interoperability despite using xmpp at first. Google gtalk predates facebook and happened at different times, IIRC the change to a closed chat service was a reaction due to facebook abusing the openness to scrape contacts.
- nerdponx 10y agoWhat kinds of skills would a volunteer need to be able to contribute?
- SamWhited 10y agoWhat skills you have are laregely irrelavant; just find something that annoys you personally about [your favorite client here], dig in, fix it, and send in a patch. Or, if you're not a developer, use whatever skills you have, mock up a way that a UI component could work better and send it in, or write documentation, or simply file bug reports. Everything helps :)