I think the problem of openfire development athe moremnt is the “commit closed” source of svn repository. It would be best if they/someone setio a github mirror of the svn main repo, so that everybody can fork and commit his changed, Doing pull requests and the authoring and reviewing changed by community user (not part of the core devlopers) would speed up whole project and would provide more porfessional exchange of “usnatble” patches till next release.