[Debian-rtc-admin] prosody setup

[Martin]

Dear Kaliko,

On 2023-03-11 09:01, kaliko at debian.org wrote:
> I noticed our debian.org xmpp server lacks some modern features.

Absolutely!

>   * MAM for MUC (should be straightforward)
>   * bosh/websockets with HTTP lookup method cf. XEP-0156
>   * external service discovery, XEP-0215 (is there a turn/stun service
>     we can use?)

I also would like to see a little bit more space for HTTP upload.

> I cannot check the current setup (no access to vogler) and I don't
> speak puppet but I'm willing to help to make these changes.

IMHO, the problem with the current setup is the use of a special Puppet
module that generates a Prosody config. Nobody knows this module well
enough to work with it and when I once had a problem not even upstream
could help me.

Puppet should just take a prosody config file from git, put it in place
and reload/restart prosody.

However, DSA never commented on that change, see rt.debian.org ticket
#8605. They are probably too busy with other stuff.

In fact, administrating a prosody server for Debian is neither difficult
nor is it much work. I'm running prosody for my company and it is almost
no work at all. It is only becomes difficult, when a very special tool
is used, that "nobody" knows :-(

Please join xmpp:rtc at conference.debian.org?join!

Cheers