[Adium-devl] XMPP Troubles

[Colin Barrett]

This should be on the blog, by the way. Wether or not we decide to  
block 1.3 on this (keep that discussion in ticket #8843, por favor),  
we should put something out saying we're very aware of this.

I would be willing to write said blog post, btw.

-Colin

On Jun 26, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Eric Richie wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> It's come to my attention that we could have some serious xmpp issues
> on our hands.  I've heard several reports of certain large companies
> having their internal jabber servers knocked out by some client
> issues.  I talked to a few of you who have been hearing similar things
> from other sources.  In all of the reports I've heard about they were
> using libpurple clients (hence why I'm cc'ing the pidgin list) but
> mainly using Adium.  I realize that there are arguments to be made
> about the quality of their servers and such, but I'm not looking to
> get into any of that.  I'm finding the reports somewhat troubling and
> think this needs to be looked into.  That being said I'd like to get a
> task force of sorts together to possibly work on hunting down the
> issue this weekend.
>
> Our tickets are:
> http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/8834
> http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/10231 (Seems to be the more serious of
> the two)
>
> Pidgin:
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5484
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6188 (dupe of #5484, filed against
> Adium #8834)
>
> As always, thank you to anyone who decides to contribute, and of
> course, let me know if you need any additional resources or if I can
> do anything else to help facilitate the efforts.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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