I'm writing these steps primarily for myself as a reference.  However, if someone else finds them useful to great. Adding XMPP framework to your server.  Initially I was going to add Prosody, however as I'm working off an Apache server with Centos 6.10 this quickly proved to a goal that was out of reach.  Instead, I pivoted and redirected to Erlang.   Is your server hardware running Linux, BSD, OS X, or Windows? Can you use Java or Python or another language if the server...

As a process I apply patches locally first, then using git upload the update(s) to a development site on the server.  Once the testing has been completed, the final step to apply the patch to the production site.   Using Terminal or your preferred shell program, navigate to the correct directory.  Then run this command using the name of the patch file (example.patch): patch < example.patchHowever, if you are patching Drupal core then remember to patch from the root directory...