Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-02-16 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
Are there any news on this? 2009/1/23 Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im: Kevin Smith wrote: 009/1/23 Jiří Zárevúcký zarevucky.j...@gmail.com: Really, if this is something that is going to be discussed, then you should just allow for extra XML namespaces under each item in the roster. I

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Btw, I got one suggestion that would fix merging contacts: Give contacts a UUID when you make them a meta contact. That UUID could be shared on the two servers, so the client knows that the contacts from both accounts form one meta contact. -- Jonathan PGP.sig Description: Signierter

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Smith
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Schleifer js-xmpp-standa...@webkeks.org wrote: Btw, I got one suggestion that would fix merging contacts: Give contacts a UUID when you make them a meta contact. That UUID could be shared on the two servers, so the client knows that the contacts from

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 23.01.2009 um 12:32 schrieb Kevin Smith: Brilliant idea - it's almost as if you'd read the XEP. I'm sure the last time I looked at it it didn't. And IIRC, Gajim doesn't use a UUID there either. At least I can't remember having seen one there when I debugged some meta-contact related

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Pedro Melo
Hi, On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Remko Tronçon wrote: Thus, I consider the Kopete behaviour rather bad. I wouldn't call it bad. It's a good enough poor-man's metacontact, especially in the case where private storage is not available on the server. However, I do think behavior like this

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Pedro Melo
Hi, On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Jiří Zárevúcký wrote: 2009/1/22 Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com: I must say I'm inclined to agree with Olivier. Perhaps we are solving the problem from the wrong angle? Specifically, perhaps we can solve the need for users to append (Home), (Work), (ICQ) and

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Pedro Melo
On Jan 23, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Yann Leboulanger wrote: Jiří Zárevúcký a écrit : 2009/1/22 Yann Leboulanger aste...@lagaule.org: each contact has its own name, there is not a name for the group of contacts. I don't see how it could be usefull to have a name from the metacontact group. I

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
2009/1/23 Pedro Melo m...@simplicidade.org: Hi, On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Jiří Zárevúcký wrote: 2009/1/22 Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com: I must say I'm inclined to agree with Olivier. Perhaps we are solving the problem from the wrong angle? Specifically, perhaps we can solve the need

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
In the Mac version (Leapfrog), we implemented XEP-0209 and used it internally (friendly customers and those brace enough to use the nightly builds) but we rolled to the code back to the simpler version. At the time, delays to retrieve the private storage items would cause temporary

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Yann Leboulanger
Jonathan Schleifer a écrit : Am 23.01.2009 um 12:32 schrieb Kevin Smith: Brilliant idea - it's almost as if you'd read the XEP. I'm sure the last time I looked at it it didn't. And IIRC, Gajim doesn't use a UUID there either. At least I can't remember having seen one there when I debugged

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Pedro Melo
On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Jiří Zárevúcký wrote: 2009/1/23 Pedro Melo m...@simplicidade.org: On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Jiří Zárevúcký wrote: 2009/1/22 Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com: I must say I'm inclined to agree with Olivier. Perhaps we are solving the problem from the wrong

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Pedro Melo
On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Jiří Zárevúcký wrote: In the Mac version (Leapfrog), we implemented XEP-0209 and used it internally (friendly customers and those brace enough to use the nightly builds) but we rolled to the code back to the simpler version. At the time, delays to retrieve the

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
2009/1/23 Pedro Melo m...@simplicidade.org: Hi, On Jan 22, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Jiří Zárevúcký wrote: 2009/1/22 Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com: I must say I'm inclined to agree with Olivier. Perhaps we are solving the problem from the wrong angle? Specifically, perhaps we can solve the need

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Kevin Smith
009/1/23 Jiří Zárevúcký zarevucky.j...@gmail.com: Really, if this is something that is going to be discussed, then you should just allow for extra XML namespaces under each item in the roster. I was thinking about this and it really starts to seem to me like the best idea of this entire

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Kevin Smith wrote: 009/1/23 Jiří Zárevúcký zarevucky.j...@gmail.com: Really, if this is something that is going to be discussed, then you should just allow for extra XML namespaces under each item in the roster. I was thinking about this and it really starts to seem to me like the best idea

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Remko Tronçon wrote: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts) has been Deferred because of inactivity. I'll take some action on this after FOSDEM. And you have some more important writing projects to finish, too. ;-) /psa

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
I have 2 question about this spec: 1) Why not use user-specified handle (meta-contact name) instead of some opaque tag? 2) How are these meta-contact data supposed to be scattered across multiple accounts? I really didn't get this part. (clarification needed?)

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Remko Tronçon
1) Why not use user-specified handle (meta-contact name) instead of some opaque tag? Sure, you could do that too (unlness I overlook something, It's been some time). I'll clarify this. 2) How are these meta-contact data supposed to be scattered across multiple accounts? I really didn't get

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
1) Why not use user-specified handle (meta-contact name) instead of some opaque tag? Sure, you could do that too (unlness I overlook something, It's been some time). I'll clarify this. The value of the 'tag' is used as a non-human readable unique identifier for a metacontact. I think it

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Yann Leboulanger
Jiří Zárevúcký wrote: 1) Why not use user-specified handle (meta-contact name) instead of some opaque tag? Sure, you could do that too (unlness I overlook something, It's been some time). I'll clarify this. The value of the 'tag' is used as a non-human readable unique identifier for a

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
2009/1/22 Yann Leboulanger aste...@lagaule.org: each contact has its own name, there is not a name for the group of contacts. I don't see how it could be usefull to have a name from the metacontact group. I think it could be useful in some scenarios. Example: cont...@whatever.org - Contact

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Olivier Goffart
Le mardi 20 janvier 2009, XMPP Extensions Editor a écrit : XEP-0209 (Metacontacts) has been Deferred because of inactivity. Abstract: This document specifies an XMPP protocol extension for defining metacontacts and grouping member JIDs. URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0209.html If

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Olivier Goffart ogoff...@kde.org wrote: What would be the need of having different name for sub-contacts inside the same metacontact? If someone got two XMPP accounts, you might append the server name in brackets. Or when using transports, you might want to append something like (ICQ). Or

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
2009/1/22 Jonathan Schleifer js-xmpp-standa...@webkeks.org: Olivier Goffart ogoff...@kde.org wrote: What would be the need of having different name for sub-contacts inside the same metacontact? If someone got two XMPP accounts, you might append the server name in brackets. Or when using

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Remko Tronçon
Thus, I consider the Kopete behaviour rather bad. I wouldn't call it bad. It's a good enough poor-man's metacontact, especially in the case where private storage is not available on the server. However, I do think behavior like this should be optional. I for example have a few contacts with the

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
Another thing to clarify - how to handle groups? That is.. Union? Intersection? Should client synchronize them when merging contacts? Etc.. I think that best approach would be union and synchronizing between all sub-contacts.

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Matthew Wild
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Remko Tronçon re...@el-tramo.be wrote: Thus, I consider the Kopete behaviour rather bad. I wouldn't call it bad. It's a good enough poor-man's metacontact, especially in the case where private storage is not available on the server. However, I do think

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Jiří Zárevúcký
2009/1/22 Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com: I must say I'm inclined to agree with Olivier. Perhaps we are solving the problem from the wrong angle? Specifically, perhaps we can solve the need for users to append (Home), (Work), (ICQ) and (MSN)? I'm not going to object to this XEP, I just can't

Re: [Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-22 Thread Yann Leboulanger
Jiří Zárevúcký a écrit : Another thing to clarify - how to handle groups? That is.. Union? Intersection? Should client synchronize them when merging contacts? Etc.. I think that best approach would be union and synchronizing between all sub-contacts. In gajim we show contact in the groups of

[Standards] DEFERRED: XEP-0209 (Metacontacts)

2009-01-20 Thread XMPP Extensions Editor
XEP-0209 (Metacontacts) has been Deferred because of inactivity. Abstract: This document specifies an XMPP protocol extension for defining metacontacts and grouping member JIDs. URL: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0209.html If and when a new revision of this XEP is published, its status