Current state of affairs -
As of 5/25/07:
As the rollout date firms up, discussions with the Software Release Team regarding release of new versions of Gaim/Pidgin and Adium X clients resume.
As of 4/17/07:
New content for service web-page sent to Heather Harrison
As of 4/11/07:
Mapping between kerberos principles and JIDs complete.
Auto-creation of accounts for new, authenticated users complete.
As of 3/21/07:
Java authentication complete. Greg and Dennis working through the legal agreements for passing the code back upstream.
Conversation with Library about Click-for-Chat support solution promising for roadmap.
As of 3/7/07:
A Jabberd2 service is currently up and running, and Gaim clients available to the MIT community for Windows, Mac, and linux operating systems. This system has not been extensively load-tested, but adoptin rates have not been high.
Jabberd2 has no upstream support. This makes it a poor candidate for future development of additional features.
Investigation of several alternatives led to the acceptance of Jive Wildfire/Openfire as an acceptable XMPP server for MIT, and a sandbox has been set up for the pyurpose of development and testing.
Tasks for Migrating from jabberd2 to Wildfire/Openfire (Times are Greg's esitmates of calendar time):