[sldev] Re: OS-SL Development Issues (was Upcoming viewer releases)

[Callum Lerwick]

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 12:27 -0700, Ryan Williams (Which) wrote:
> Kelly Linden wrote:
> >> Wasn't there some plan to use Jabber? I think that should solve the
> >> issue nicely. 

> As I recall (just listening in to onversations), the problem with
> Jabber, specifically ejabberd, was that it wasn't proven to scale as
> well as our current solution.  YA RLY, our current solution handles
> unbounded numbers of members in a group (i.e. tens of thousands), and
> unbounded numbers of open group/conference chats.  Jabber hasn't ever
> been deployed under those conditions.  Now, you may question the design
> decisions (or lack thereof) that led us to this place, but here we are,
> and it'd be hard to go back.

This doesn't necessarily mean using ejabberd. How hard would it be to
get the current system to speak Jabber protocol? Just gatewaying Jabber
protocol into the existing system would be a good start.
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