[Wocky] gaim in the Athena release

[Paul B. Hill]

Hi Heather,

I agree that a service style page makes sense.

BTW, I note that two existing IS&T pages already make a passing reference to
the Gaim client and jabber:

http://web.mit.edu/answers/zephyr/zephyr_non_mit.html 

http://web.mit.edu/acs/www/communication.html

These should be up dated as well.

Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: wocky-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:wocky-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
Heather Anne Harrison
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:18 PM
To: Greg Hudson
Cc: wocky at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Wocky] gaim in the Athena release


I think I own all the pages you've referenced.  updates will be
no problem.

However, I think a service style page might be better than a
topic page.  Topic pages are extremely limited in the amount of
text we can put on them.  They're also supposed to be for broad
topcis that cover a range of products/services.

Here's an example of a service page:
http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/linux/rhn.html

As for where it would live, I suspect something like
/mit/ist/services/jabber/ might make sense.

Heather Anne
aurora at mit.edu


Quoting Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU>:

> I have finished putting gaim into the Athena 9.4 release (for alpha
> and beta machines currently; it will follow for early machines in a
> few days).  I settled on version 1.4.0, which is the most recent
> version at the moment.
>
> Since users running gaim will be nudged in the direction of a Jabber
> service which has only pilot support, I think we need a short web page
> which describes the current level of support and who to contact
> (i.e. us) with feedback.  We can point people to this page via the
> Athena release notes, the Athena consultants, and the SWRT software
> release page when we have an installer ready.  Also, I notice that
> http://web.mit.edu/ist/start/communicating/index.html refers to
> Zephyr, and should probably refer to this new web page as well.
>
> I envision this page as becoming analagous to
> http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/email/index.html, so perhaps it should
> live in the analagous place: ist/topics/jabber/index.html.
>
> Does that sound reasonable to people?  If I draft some initial text
> for the page, can Heather edit and format it and put it up in the
> appropriate place?
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