Thanks for another great issue. However I do have a couple of objections to editorial comments:

(Disclosure: I was the link submitter[1], but not affiliated with the project in any other way)

First of all, citation needed. I don't believe Google is anywhere near being the most used provider, nor do they claim so. I don't have any "official" stats, but it looks like ejabberd may still be the most widely deployed platform, even after jabber.org's migration to M-Link.

It may be true that google don't support pubsub (most of their re-implementations of IETF protocols tend to be incomplete anyway, just ask gmail IMAP users) but most other implementations do and no one has to use gtalk either as there are loads of free services out there.

Also, there has been enough interest here in getting proper user location support instead of the append-random-text-to-status kludge Maemo5 chose to implement.


This has been a known issue with all previous upgrades that touch the modem firmware, and most likely will be with the official PR1.2 release as well.

Someone should also mention that flashing an unverified firmware image downloaded from some random location on the net can be risky. Who's to say that it doesn't contain "additions" that send your account passwords to the publisher or make premium rate calls in the middle of the night?

[1] incidentally, sent with XMPP via tweet.im, which is very handy if like me you use too many computers and don't feel like setting up extra accounts/apps on each one for this :-)