Announcing Jive SBS 3.0

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:55:54 GMT

The Igniterealtime.org community is always part of the beta process for new Jive software releases. The beta feedback we've gotten from community members over the past several weeks has been great. During the beta, some sharp-eyed community members (including wroot) noticed that the "powered by" message that appears at the bottom of every community page had changed from Clearspace to Jive SBS. Not wanting to let the cat out of the bag, we quickly hacked back in a "Powered by Clearspace 3.0" message. Now it's official: Clearspace has been re-named and we're officially announcing Jive SBS 3.0! The release is packed full of great new features that I hope you've all been enjoying during the beta. A couple of the improvements that I think are especially great for Ignite: searching is now up to ten times faster and we use image sprites so that pages load faster.

For full details on the release, check out the announcement. And for a look at what Jive is all about lately, check out our manifesto. Thanks again for all your feedback during the beta!

Jivin' Gateways and More!

communityadmin@igniterealtime.org — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:25:04 GMT

You may or may not already be aware that I have been a full time member of the Jive family for a couple of weeks now! It's been quite interesting to see how different it is from my previous job in a university setting. It's been a lot of fun already and it's really exciting to have turned my favorite hobby into a career. =) My coworkers are great and I almost find myself wondering why I didn't do this earlier.

So what am I going to be doing? Well, the development of the IM Gateway plugin is part of my job now. We'll be setting solid goals and release dates instead of it being dependent entirely on my free time. That and Openfire are my main focuses. I'm really excited about playing a more direct role in Openfire development! One of my first tasks will be to improve the unix installers for Openfire. They have been lacking love for a while now and I have a strong unix background to bring to the table. In one of the next releases of Openfire we'll have improved packages, unix scripts, and better support for more operating system distributions. Overall, good things to come! =)

You may have heard that I have taken over as lead developer of Spark. It's been a long time since I have been involved in client development and I actually miss it. My very first XMPP related project was a client. Now, as you've heard from the Ignite Realtime post preceding this one, Spark is a low priority. My focus with it in terms of work with Jive is bug fixes, maintenance, and paying customer requirements. Beyond that, I'll likely be working on it on my own time when I need a change of pace. I am a Mac user primarily, so you may see more Mac focused fixes at first. If nothing else I'm going to make sure Spark is something I enjoy using, which coincides to a lot of things that the community has reported/requested anyway. I highly encourage folk who are interested to submit patches! The only caveat is that for patches of any size, I'll need you to sign contributor agreements, if you haven't already.

Now, since I'm involved in more than just the IM Gateway plugin now, I can't keep up with the forums as much as I did before. I try to spend some time each day looking over the forums, but with more than just the single forum, it's too much to keep up with entirely. Dawn is working hard on coming up with good ways to involve the community more and try to make sure things don't get missed! She has been speaking on this in the Jive Lounge, so please visit the lounge and contribute if you have some thoughts!

Anyway, I wanted to make sure folk understood that my role has changed and wave hi from within Jive! =) Any questions?

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