[Mod-pubsub-developer] PubSub User Group (PUG) Meeting minutes for February.

[Adam R. <Ad...@Kn...>]

New cvs change to the Python PubSub server:
  - fixed kn_expires support

Mod_pubsub statistics, as of 2/28/2003:
  # of developers: 36
  # of client libraries: 5 (C, Windows C++, JavaScript, Perl, Python)
  # of kn_apps: 40 (new this month: sitewatch)
  # of CVS adds: 464
  # of CVS commits: 124
  # of downloads: 118
  # of pageviews: 4273
  # of mailing list list emails: 98
  SF project rank: 6003 out of 57,380

I provide no trend analysis because we have no trends.
We're doing zero marketing except for our own (minimal)
word-of-mouth.  Vive la http://mod-pubsub.sourceforge.net/

As for the future...

Potential things to add to mod_pubsub distribution:
  - command-line performance testing tools
  - Fred's Apache web server logfile sensor (+ update sitewatch to use
it?)
  - Joyce's soon-to-be PHP client library
  - updates to the Windows C++ client library (including PocketPC
support!)
  - Greg's elisp client library
  - Greg's ruby client library
  - Jeff's Excel client library
  - update Perl client library to support trailing "/"s
  - Java client library (or, try to compile pubsublib.py as Java byte
codes that run on a JVM)
  - JavaScript client library that's not browser-based for use with
Konfabulator runtime
  - Flash client library
  - SOAP client library
  - make pubsub.cgi an actual Apache module, mod_pubsub
  - kn_apps for Connect 4 game and Reversi game
  - kn_apps for demonstrating email in and out of a PubSub server
  - explore Windows Scripting Host uses
  - explore use with mod_dav for DAV notifications

And, because I'm on a Python kick...

Potential Python things to add to mod_pubsub distribution:
  - Python command-line tools to list events, routes, and subtopics
(also, recursively)
  - cleaner.py utility to remove expired events from a PubSub server
  - off-host route support (and kn_content_transform support) in
pubsub.py and pubsublib.py
    [this may involve a switch to using standard asyncore rather than
our custom one]
  - username/password authentication and SSL support in pubsub.py and
pubsublib.py
  - Python client library test suite ported from the JavaScript PubSub
library suite
  - Python sample applications for ping and chat
  - update scheduler.py to do exception handling
  - try to compile pubsub.py as a Windows exe
  - explore use of Twisted Internet
  - bridge.py to form server federations
  - explore the merging of pubsub.py and pubsublib.py

Next month's PubSub User Group meeting will be earlier (Tue March 25 @
7pm) somewhere
Further north (say, somewhere in Redwood City).  See you then,

   Adam