[jdev] XMPP Certification Opinion Poll

[Celso Martinho]

I think certification is a good idea. Having a suite of tools for  
developers to see how their work would comply with standards would  
also be great.

One thing I would find most usefull is a list of JEP recomendations  
promoted by the JSF for the implementation of the various generic/ 
obvious IM features that most XMPP clients have, even if the JEPs are  
considered experimental or even still in the inbox directory.

I know that we  can sort of get that information from the JEP headers  
and from the lists on http://www.jabber.org/jeps/ but eecommendations  
change. A nice up-to-date global overview would be nice. The JEP  
database is huge and keeping track of the changes and trends without  
being very involved is hard.

Celso.

On May 13, 2005, at 3:32 AM, Hal Rottenberg wrote:

> We're having quite a debate on the JSF Members list today.
> (https://www.jabber.org/members/) The main topic is
> certification of open-source Jabber projects.  There are at least two
> types of certifications being discussed, and I'll go over them very
> briefly:
>
> 1) Certification.  You would have several levels.  I'm proposing the
> bare minimum would be 100% XMPP compliance.  Beyond that you would
> have multiple levels, and some would be pertinent to clients, others
> to servers, and perhaps still others would apply to tools, libraries,
> and other categories.  An example is that you can get your XMPP
> button, and if you like, go for a Silver ribbon which means you meet
> XMPP, plus Basic and Intermediate IM Suite JEPs. (That's a totally
> made up example, no real decisions have been made at this oint.)
>
> 2) Official JSF Projects.  This proposal would entail the JSF voting
> on naming multiple projects, as "official".  It would be a badge of
> honor.  It's assumed (by me anyway) that you would have to meet some
> level of certification to become eligible.
>
> Why am I telling you this?  Well Rachel tells us that she and Julian
> tried to get certification going a while ago and it went down in
> flames when brought up here on JDEV.  So, let it be known that round
> #2 of certification is coming.
>
> Based on the outline I've given above (which again is just based on a
> single day of discussion) would you just absolutely freak out if this
> were to be implemented?  Or would you say "about time!"?
>
> -1 / 0 / +1 ?
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