[jdev] XMPP Certification Opinion Poll
Hal Rottenberg
halr9000 at gmail.com
Fri May 13 23:06:04 CDT 2005
On 5/13/05, Heiner Wolf <wolf at bluehands.de> wrote:
> It is true that users who hit jabber.org for the first time need
> guidance. Most want a single simple download link. On the other hand
> offering only one or two clients is unfair for the other developers.
> Therefore we have a long list with the box at the top of the page as a
> compromise. A certification makes it more fair, although probably not
> better. A certification must not be easy to achieve. Otherwise we get a
> large list of certified clients, servers, etc.
True. This is why we would have multiple levels of certs. Base is
XMPP. If someone is looking for file transfer support, that would
mean a client certified at the "foo" level, and there would be fewer
to choose from.
> I would probably not certify clients, but rather select distinguished
> projects. At most one or two per category. I have no idea and even less
> time to work on certification rules. This makes it difficult for me to
> vote pro certification. But I would support some kind of selection of
> distinguished projects.
That's exactly what the "Official JSF Project" idea is for.
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