GSoC Aknowledgments

I would like to thank several people for their help in my Google Summer of Code project:

• Mickaël Rémond (from Process-One) for mentoring me, and answering my constant questions about Erlang/OTP and ejabberd.
  
• Peter Saint-Andre for answering my constant questions about XMPP and XEPs.
• Tobias Markmann for sharing ideas about XEP-0033, and for hosting an ejabberd test server.
• Gaston Dombiak (from Jive Software) for sharing ideas and his experience of implementing XEP-0033 in Openfire.
• Anastasia Gornostaeva (from Jabber.ru) from sharing ideas about abuse-prevention in XEP-0033.
  
• Sergei Golovan (from Tkabber) for quickly improving Tkabber for my debugging purposes.
• Kevin Smith and Remko Tronçon (from Psi) for explaining how to get XEP-0033 to work in Psi.

I also want to express my general gratitude to some particular organizations and projects:

• Google, for their Google Summer of Code.
• XMPP Standards Foundation for working in XMPP, and for accepting my project proposal.
• Alexey Shchepin for starting that cool ejabberd.
• Joe Armstrong and all the other people that develop and improve the fascinating Erlang/OTP.

GSoC Status Update: November'07

It has been three months since I posted the Final GSoC project status. It's time to report what happened with the remaining tasks.

The tasks that I've completed since then are:

• Perform code profiling to find bottlenecks and deficiencies in mod_multicast. Improve the code.
  
• Once I make all the possible optimizations: perform benchmarks to check mod_multicast's effect in CPU, RAM and traffic consumption.
  

The tasks that I haven't completed yet are:

• Wait for ejabberd code reviewers, in case I need to fix any problem in my XEP-0033 patches for ejabberd before they are applied to ejabberd trunk.
• Discuss potential security and spam vulnerabilities (talk in JDEV and JADMIN mailint lists).
• Add XEP33 support to ejabberd's Pub/Sub and/or PEP service once their codebase is stable.
• Wait for Peter Saint-Andre's questions regarding his XEP-0033 update.

So this adventure has not ended yet.