Feature discussion

I have added a project tracker for the Tigase XMPP Server. It is based on the Drupal Storm module.

The good thing is that it is very well integrated with the website. I am going to add trackers for other sub-projects as well (MUC, PubSub, etc...), they can use Drupal accounts, tickets can be moved between trackers and we have all the development related stuff in one place. I hope it works well.

On the other hand, please note, this is a very new feature on the website so consider it as an experimental stuff and report any problems you may encounter. If you have any suggestions or ideas please let me know.

Right now it offers only basic features and I am going to add more in time.

Not long ago I have published a poll about the website features. The feedback is very valuable and I am now considering what changes introduce on the website to make it more convenient for people to contribute.

One of the changes I planing to do for sure is to revert back website accounts registration. This has been blocked a few months ago for number of reasons and one of them was increased number of spam I had to deal with. I am going to do something in between now. Everybody will be welcomed to register an account, however the registration will be moderated to prevent spammers from registering massive number of accounts and spamming website with their posts. The account on the http://www.tigase.org is still for people who want to contribute to the project only, however a contribution is now anything related to the project. Including a simple question or answer on the forum.

Now the second poll I am about to publish. We are interested in what operating systems people use or want to use the Tigase server on. As we are preparing for the next server release we want to test it extensively on all platforms on which people use or want to use the server. Therefore your vote is essential to us. Please don't hesitate to add your comments too.

 The Tigase project's forums is based on the Drupal native forums functionality. Even though it doesn't have all the features of more advanced, dedicated forums tools like phpBB and others it served us well in last years and was selected for a number of reasons.

Roster versioning support seems to become the fad in July since Prosody team claimed that "Prosody is currently the only server to support roster versioning".

According to the abstract of XEP-0237: Roster Versioning, this specification defines a proposed modification to the XMPP roster protocol that enables versioning of rosters such that the server will not send the roster to the client if the roster has not been modified, thus saving bandwidth during session establishment.

Exact-Match Conformance is implemented in tigase for simplicity. The entire roster will be transmitted if there is any modification of the roster.

The feature is in the trunk code on svn already and will be included in the coming release.