1024548 - Loop server should be pluggable

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Hello (Loop) :: Server, enhancement)

Description

[Alexis Metaireau (:alexis)]

Loop server currently relies exclusively on OpenTok to retrieve tokens. We should be able to use a different service rather than only Tokbox's.

https://github.com/tOkeshu/smoke-signals provides an interesting starting point that we should have a look at.

Comment 2

[Alexis Metaireau (:alexis)]

Here is a brain-dump of what's needed to support that on the server side:

1. Currently, the server relays TokBox tokens to the client, and then the client uses them for the relation. Supporting different providers means we need to have a "token type" associated with the tokens we return.

2. Loop itself doesn't do the signaling part, so we should use a different provider to do that. matrix.org seems to provide an open protocol for that. 

3. Changing this on the server wouldn't be enough: we would need to do the same on the client side. This is bug 1024546.

Comment 3

[michiel]

IMHO the philosophical implications of this bug are huge, and I would love to work on this.

Comment 4

[Alexis Metaireau (:alexis)]

Michiel, if you're willing to work on this on the server side, be aware that we would need to do a bunch of changes on the client side as well, which will be apparently more complex (see bug 1024546 for more on this, I don't know much of the client infrastructure).

We can discuss this however you want, please come up on #loop-server on the mozilla irc network, or let's exchange here if you prefer.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Support for Hello/Loop has been discontinued.

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/hello-status

Hence closing the old bugs. Thank you for your support.