Feature Requests item #1120358, was opened at 2005-02-10 16:36 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1120358&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Bruce Hearn (behearn) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: send/receive buddy list. Initial Comment: Consider this: most people who use GAIM do so in order to gather all their contacts together in one place. Now, most people have contact networks, so they end up sharing a bunch of contacts. But it remains awkward to share contact lists, and awkward to maintain these lists over time. A missing feature of IM is the ability to share a group, purely for the sake of contact management. Group sharing would require an owner and a globally unique name. The group owner would decide on who is in the group and respond to add/remove requests. This would be hugely beneficial for IM lists within companies, and among friend networks. The group could show up in the GUI the same way a regular group does. At any time a group should be shareable/manageable. For infrastructure you have a couple of options: 1) you might be looking at a central server to hold group memberships. It would give GAIM a big push if the project had the resources to put up a central group server, otherwise yahoo, aol and others would have to handle it, and have access to those lists. Doing this before they get involved would help keep that info private. 2) a p2p alternative would be to have the groups cached by the clients; when the client sees the group owner sign in, it could request group replication. hope this idea is worth pursuing, Bruce ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-20 11:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bruce Hearn (behearn) Date: 2005-02-25 22:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=627116 deryni9, I agree it would be better to implement this in one of the original clients or in jabber. Seems like it's just a matter of time before it happens, the jabber jep "group services" you mention is basically the same idea. I'll keep an eye on that one ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etan Reisner (deryni9) Date: 2005-02-10 21:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=516184 gaim isn't exactly in a position to implement this across protocols because gaim isn't an IM service, it's only an IM client, and as such it doesn't have servers of it's own. However, there is a jabber enhancement proposal (http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0144.html) which is geared to supporting some form/method of this, so if you wanted to implement support in gaim for that JEP I'm rather certain that would be acceptable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1120358&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
