Matthew Wild for Council 2010
My name is Matthew Wild (and sometimes 'MattJ'), and I am located in the United Kingdom. I have been an XSF member since January 2008.
Me and XMPP
My main work at the moment, since launching the project in 2008, is in leading the development of Prosody, a lightweight XMPP server. For details of my other XMPP-related work, feel free to browse my XSF membership applications.
XMPP Council
I was elected a council member for 2009-2010, and am standing again with the aim of continuing the work we have been doing.
In the coming term I personally will be focusing on improving specifications for message archiving, stream reliability/resumption (XEP-0198), invisibility and an "better" component protocol (~XEP-0225). I would also mention the various spam/spim specifications here, but I believe they need implementations now, not more specifications. Therefore with my server developer's hat on I'll be implementing those whether I'm elected to council or not :)
Very much in line with my software development principles, I favour XEPs that:
- Are as small (limited in scope) and as simple as possible, but obviously no simpler
- Allow for fast and efficient implementations; for servers especially, but also clients
- Don't needlessly duplicate existing protocols in use
- Have working existing or proof-of-concept implementations
I won't specifically mention criteria related to the actual document's writing style itself, Peter Saint-Andre already does an excellent job of writing and tidying XEPs during the standards process, and ensures they contain plenty of examples and cross-references. The XMPP specifications are unrivalled in that respect :-)
If you agree with the above then yay, you found a reason to vote for me!
Contact
XMPP/email: me@matthewwild.co.uk