Provide filtered XMPP provider lists on https://xmpp.net

[melvo]

@mwild1 proposed that a subdomain of https://xmpp.net could provide the filtered lists of category A, B and C of the XMPP Providers project.

Steps

1. git clone https://invent.kde.org/melvo/xmpp-providers.git && cd xmpp-providers only once
2. git pull && ./filter.py -A && ./filter.py -B && ./filter.py -C once a day or even more often

Software Requirements

Python >= 3.7 is required for running ./filter.py.

Additional Thoughts

We could link from https://invent.kde.org/melvo/xmpp-providers to the three created JSON files on https://providers.xmpp.net or a similar subdomain.
It would be great if we could provide those lists as a first easy goal. In the future, we could create a welcome page with links to all lists or even a nice formatted table on https://providers.xmpp.net.

[melvo]

@Echolon This is the issue for providing the filtered lists by a web server.

[Echolon]

Great @melvo

[mwild1]

Thanks for filing this! If someone can put together a Dockerfile, it should be pretty easy to get deployed. Otherwise I'll try to do it, but whether I have time this week depends on how the jabber.org migration goes.

[Echolon]

@mwild1 great - thanks for your support. lets see what we can do here!

[mwild1]

I've made a Dockerfile for this, but I'm uneasy about the automatic git pull from a non-XSF code repository. If the repository were ever compromised, it would allow executing arbitrary code on our server (within a container, but containers are not sufficient for isolation of untrusted code).

Some options that would be okay:

• Automatic update of non-code files only (e.g. auto-update for providers.json, but not filter.py)
• Pulling pre-built JSON files from somewhere else
• Moving the repo to github.com/xsf so that XSF iteam members can review and approve changes to the code before they are deployed.

[melvo]

@mwild1 Thanks!

The latest provider lists are now automatically created and must only be fetched:
providers-A.json
providers-B.json
providers-C.json

I propose to do that once a day if possible.

[Echolon]

Category A via data.xmpp.net

https://data.xmpp.net/providers/v1/providers-A.json

[melvo]

@mwild1 Are the provider lists
https://data.xmpp.net/providers/v1/providers-A.json
https://data.xmpp.net/providers/v1/providers-B.json
https://data.xmpp.net/providers/v1/providers-C.json
regularly updated and will you add the Dockerfile to this repository?

[mwild1]

They are (now) and yes, I have. Thanks for your patience :)

[Echolon]

❤❤❤

[melvo]

@mwild1 Thanks! I created two new issues (xsf/xmpp.org#1083 and #19) for the next steps :)
The XMPP Providers service has been added by f4e923a.