Monday, April 27, 2020

Re: remote net/jabberd (abandoned project)

If we have alternatives let's not bother with unmaintained software...
And yes, maybe someone is using it, but as long as we keep it in the
ports tree gives a false sense of continuity...

OK mariani@
Cheers.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 9:12 AM Solene Rapenne <solene@perso.pw> wrote:
>
> Taking a look at jabber servers, I found we had net/jabberd which is
> abandonned since 1st november 2018.
>
> Official source repository is archived/read-only
> https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2 and nothing can happen to it
> anymore. It seems no fork made progress compared to the official
> repository.
>
> Official statement from the only jabberd2 developer that he stops
> working on it, 20 jan 2018:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/jabberd2@lists.xiaoka.com/msg02553.html
>
> I propose to remove this from ports, it's old and not maintained.
> Ejabberd was obsolete in our ports tree but it still developed, this is
> one clearly abandoned and dead.
>
> ok for removal? If so, I'd like to do it before 6.7 so we don't ship
> this.
>

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