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Erik Huelsmann wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Could you explain a bit more what it is that you're looking for from
your perspective? I mean, a more lively project has 2 components: (1)
a committer/maintainer and (2) visible/engaged users [who provide
feedback regarding what they're missing].
Does anybody here have anything they're missing, or are you just
experimenting with the library and running into problems so fast that
you're abandoning it immediately?
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I've mostly been in the "abandoning it immediately" camp so far,
spending a half day reading code trying to work through different bugs
before having other obligations cut my investigations short.<br>
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Some things I'd like to use cl-xmpp for:<br>
<ul>
<li>Personally:</li>
<ul>
<li>home-automation that's remote controllable via XMPP (eg:
download a file, what's the temperature, etc)<br>
</li>
<li>harasser/nagger chat-bot to help me get my chores done (eg:
"Hey, it's been X days since you cleaned the damn litter box, suck it
up")<br>
</li>
<li>get my growing collection of EEEpcs communicating with each
other via XMPP (possibly for experiments in erlang style distributed
computing)<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Professionally:</li>
<ul>
<li>chat bot for the office chatroom (something like #lisp's minion
over XMPP)<br>
</li>
<li>send notifications from our lisp intranet app to the office
chatroom (eg: "payment added by Ryan: [link]", "contact info edited by
Ryan [link]")</li>
</ul>
</ul>
Currently I know of two things that have been issues for me:<br>
<ol>
<li>cl-xmpp and ejabberd not working well together (looks to be a
patch here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/cl-xmpp-devel/2007-October/000098.html">http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/cl-xmpp-devel/2007-October/000098.html</a>)</li>
<li>figuring out the right combination of xmpp:connect-tls /
xmpp:connect and :mechanism to connect to the office xmpp server,
OpenFire (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp">http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp</a>).
This is a combination of my ignorance about the OpenFire config and
lack of cl-xmpp documentation.</li>
<li>The example on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-xmpp/">http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-xmpp/</a> doesn't
work, uses "connection" where it means "*connection*". This is a small
thing, but I see it causing confusion on the mailing list every so
often.<br>
</li>
</ol>
I would be happy in the visible/engaged users bit, possibly submitting
documentation patches or small bug fixes depending on how my time goes.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Ryan<br>
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