Re: IM

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> > As far as I know I don't have an account, and if I do I have no idea
> > what my password is.
>
> So there's another problem here: somebody created accounts, but the
> person who was supposed to use it has no clue about it.

Yeah, the same thing happened to me a while back. I re-installed the
OS on may laptop and for a few weeks was unable to login. It was only
when I managed to chat with JD on the phone that we realised my
username was davepage instead of dpage which I use pretty much
everywhere else :-(

> This all started because Bruce wasn't able to talk to me on IM. I said
> "hey, add my jabber.postgresql.org account to your momjian.us account
> and we should connect." But it didn't work at all. Bruce gets a weird
> XMPP 404 error; apparently the Jabber server is just not able to talk to
> outside jabber servers. I know it was capable of doing so some days ago
> -- I tested it myself. Now it's messed up again.
>
> I really hate to have to waste time complaining about something that
> someone else wasted time to set up. But if we're gonna offer a service,
> let's provide said service.

Much as I hate to say it, the jabber service is almost entirely a
CommandPrompt thing. That's not to say we don't support the idea of
having one - just that the guys there (obviously not you) set it up
and maintain it, whilst none of the rest of us know anything about it.
It is documented on PMT, but unfortunately not in a particularly
useful way (it basically says - jabber(.postgresql.org) is a jabber
server!!).

I'm happy for us to take a more active role managing it, but we could
use some details on how it all works on PMT.

--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com