This appears to weaken the case for keeping the package as-is as the off-label use option relative to StatusNet is likely to decline in usability as we head into 2013 and Evan Prodromou's crew starts diverging away from a Twitter-like API.
SMK -------- Original Message -------- Subject: heise online: StatusNet transforms into Node.js-driven pump.io Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:22:41 +0100 From: Stephen Michael Kellat <skel...@sdf.lonestar.org> To: skel...@fastmail.net This piece of news from The H has been sent to you by "Stephen Michael Kellat <skel...@sdf.lonestar.org>". The sender's address has not been verified. If you doubt the sender's authenticy please ignore this mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18 December 2012, 17:10 StatusNet transforms into Node.js-driven pump.io Evan Prodromou, the founder of status.net[1], has announced that the company is closing down its microblog hosting service and is migrating active accounts to its new pump.io[2] service while archiving unused ones. The status.net company will also rebrand under the name e14n[3] to reflect the fact that it is offering more than just one product. The company has now stopped development on its open source Status.Net software. That software started life as a Twitter clone, unlike the new pump.io platform is more of a general purpose messaging server than a microblogging system. As Prodromou said[4] on identi.ca[5], "I think it's more like postfix, ircd, or jabberd. A server for sending and receiving stuff in particular ways." The identi.ca service itself will, much like the other free-of-charge and commercial accounts run by the company, eventually be folded into the new pump.io platform. However, Prodromou says that this will not happen until other public instances are up and running on the new service that users can use. He announced this "So, y'know, don't freak out", he told identi.ca's user community. He also expressed sadness over leaving the status.net domain behind and thanked the employees who kept the infrastructure running. In contrast to the AGPL licensed StatusNet which is written in PHP, pump.io is using JavaScript with the Node.js framework and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. The software is currently at version 0.1, version 0.2 is in development and will include a web front-end that works with the messaging server. Source code[6] for the pump.io software is available on GitHub. See also: identi.ca creator launches enterprise micro-blogging support[7], a report from The H. This features's URL: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/StatusNet-transforms-into-Node-js-driven-pump-io-1771646.html Links in this feature: [1] http://status.net/ [2] http://pump.io/ [3] http://e14n.com [4] http://identi.ca/notice/98530312 [5] http://identi.ca/ [6] https://github.com/e14n/pump.io [7] http://www.h-online.com/news/item/identi-ca-creator-launches-enterprise-micro-blogging-support-940925.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2012 Heise Media UK Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
