[jdev] jabber.org software listings

[Matt Tucker]

Peter,

I think the feature score and software listings are powerful tools for
the organization to encourage protocol adoption. For example, we've
focused specifically on compliance in Wildfire since it's a useful
marketing tool. I do agree that an updated compliance score system and
more objective measurements would be a good thing, but I don't think we
should give up the tool until that's done. Although it's imperfect, the
system still has value.

In the short term, I would recommend that the council approve new server
score matrix criteria and that we maintain a self-reporting system while
moving towards more official compliance testing.

Regards,
Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org 
> [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On Behalf Of Peter Saint-Andre
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:56 PM
> To: Jabber software development list
> Subject: Re: [jdev] jabber.org software listings
> 
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > I'm thinking we might want to move the software listings to 
> Wikipedia.
> > So we would redirect as follows:
> > 
> > FROM http://www.jabber.org/software/servers.shtml
> > 
> > TO   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jabber_server_software
> 
> Another factor is the existence of "detail pages" at 
> jabber.org such as the following:
> 
> http://www.jabber.org/software/ejabberd.shtml
> 
> It's nice to have those at jabber.org but I think those pages 
> should be the responsibility of the relevant projects. That 
> would enable us to more easily create such pages for clients, 
> libraries, and components, too.
> 
> Then we have the "feature scores" here:
> 
> http://www.jabber.org/software/servers.shtml
> 
> I think those scores are helpful but potentially misleading, 
> since they are not based on objective compliance testing 
> (only self-reports). Until we do such testing (maybe in '07 
> or '08), I think it doesn't make a lot of sense to post those 
> feature scores.
> 
> Peter
> 
> --
> Peter Saint-Andre
> Jabber Software Foundation
> http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml
> 
>