Why OStatus will rock your world

Hey everybody!

Things may have looked pretty quiet the last couple weeks, but here at SNI we’ve actually been rushing to get some really awesome things ready for you all…

In addition to finalizing StatusNet 0.9 with scalability and bug fixes to make it release-ready, we’ve been implementing our new federation protocol OStatus, successor to our older OMB 0.1.

I know the scattered notes we’ve got up on the wiki right now are a little confusing, so over the next few days I’m going to start consolidating those into a clearer picture what OStatus is and how it’ll let StatusNet sites connect better to each other and to other systems.

In the meantime, active work on OStatus is currently proceeding in the ‘testing’ branch in our gitorious mainline repository…

Stay tuned!

— brion vibber (brion @ status.net)
Software Architect
StatusNet, Inc
San Francisco