Developers of Sympa

[Paul Menzel <address@concealed>]

Dear Sympa authors,


Am Mittwoch, den 29.07.2009, 17:20 +0200 schrieb Etienne MELEARD:

[…]

> In order to add an instant messaging feature to Sympa we (the Sympa 
> authors) are looking for people having some experience in this field.
> 
> We already tested different solutions and checked out their 
> (dis)advantages; our conclusions can be found here : 
> https://www.sympa.org/dev/sympa_and_instant_messaging
> 
> We are looking for experienced feedback to help us choose between two 
> solutions, standalone server or web chat - or any other solution we 
> wouldn't have heard of yet.
> 
> Any help is welcome!

Could you please answer some questions of mine.

1. The page [1] says that you implemented something like that already
for a Wiki. Is this feature used a lot?

2. Could you please describe, how the scenario would work for the stand
alone server solution. The user either logs in over the Sympa web
interface and then opens his XMPP client. Then s/he is automatically
authenticated? Is not everyone using the store password feature in those
clients and signs in automatically? Or the user first logs in with his
client and then s/he is automatically authenticated for the Web
services?

3. In my opinion, one should just add a new item in the user information
listing the user name for XMPP, create a help page how to install a
client and let the administrator who wants to provide a possibility to
chat set up the rest. Most of the time this is not even necessary since
a whole bunch of people use a mail provider already providing a XMPP
service like Google Mail, Web.de/Freemail, GMX.de and so on.


Bests,

Paul


[1] https://www.sympa.org/dev/sympa_and_instant_messaging

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