This software codebase initiated as a fork of prosody trunk (to be 0.9) merged with LW.Org's custom, patches initiating from August 7th 2012 (see first commit).
Being mainly based on Prosody a lot of Metronome's code is backport compatible, but as development progressed a good portion of it completely diverged from mainstream's to better suit LW.Org IM's needs.
The main differences from Prosody are:
- The Pubsub API and wrapped modules, mod_pubsub and mod_pep;
- The MUC API and wrapper plugins;
- Pluggable MUC configuration;
- Core stack: Modulemanager, Usermanager, Hostmanager, Module API, etc... ;
- How s2s streams are treated;
- The anonymous auth backend (mod_auth_anonymous & sasl.lua ineherent part);
- Included plugins, utils;
- The HTTP API;
- BOSH's JSON Padding and XEP-252 support.
- Extensive Microblogging over XMPP support.
- Daemon Control Utility;
- It does have only one server backend being libevent and has a hard dep. on lua-event.