Pump.io, what's going on?
Björn Schießle at 2014-12-30T19:33:21Z
I just had a look at the github page of pump.io and was surprised that the last commit is six months old. Is https://github.com/e14n/pump.io still the official repository or does the development happens somewhere else? Do I have to worry about the future of pump.io?
Gustavo E. Soto Ulloa , l30bravo , JanKusanagi , Evan Prodromou like this.
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While I agree it's a bit worrying, and there are some things that still need work in the pump.io core, I wouldn't be that worried :-) Pump.io shouldn't be seen as a single big code base, the idea is to have a very minimalistic server and most of the action (and development) would be in clients and services built around it.
I guess you are already aware of the clients (since you're using Impeller :-) but the most exciting recent development is that Mediagoblin now supports the pump.io protocol as well (should be coming in the next release). You can see it as a new special-purpose server implementation of pump.
That said, I wish Evan would bring more people from the community e.g. to maintain the code. I understand he is very busy with other things at the moment, and could use the help.
sazius at 2014-12-30T19:46:30Z
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I'd quote what Sazius said, word by word =)
Pump.io is muuuuch more than just the core, and there are lots of possibilities to explore already, even if the core system isn't improved.
However, that being said, the core system has several important issues that need addressing, and it certainly be great if Evan could find the time to work on it again (maybe if we could get him some decent funding) and/or be able to delegate on other people. Problem for #2 is... who really knows how the internals of a Pump.io server work? =)
There's also the work on W3C's SocialWG to consider. Since plenty of things will need to be adapted to the "common" agreed protocol, I guess it makes sense to wait until there's something solid.
I know that the idea was always that a lot of interesting stuff should happen outside of the core server. Still I worry a bit that the core doesn't got updated for such a long time. Especially I hoped pump.io would soon get long missing features from the old status.net days, e.g. groups.
Well, for the record, Pump.io already _has_ groups, but there are several features missing (like easily looking up which groups you're in), so it's not really usable yet.