Whether to index and show a wave to a user is a decision of a wave system. It depends on things such as group expansion, publicness, actions the user has taken on the wave, etc. It's distinct from participation, which is an access control primitive. So you can see a wave you are not a participant of (e.g. because you are a member of a group which is a participant) and you can not see a wave you are a participant on (e.g. because you unfollowed or trashed it in a client). We reserve the term "participant" to mean an explicit participant on a wavelet.
Decisions about indexing are not yet addressed in any of the documentation or code we have published to date, though clearly we have implemented some in Google Wave. The challenge of federating group lookup has yet to be explored in depth. Cheers, Alex On 26 May 2010 20:18, James Purser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:02 -0700, lukas wrote: > > So if I understand your reply correctly, follower actually IS a wave > > participant, but somehow he is not visible in list of participants (in > > wave list of wave detail at the top) until he contribute into wave, > > right? > > > > > I think the best way of looking at a "follower" is as a participant who > > > hasn't actually done anything on the wave yet. As to groups, I'm > thinking > > > they would be implemented via an agent (forwarding on to group > members). > > > > I think that's the best way to look at it. Essentially, they're a > participant who gets ignored by everyone else until they contribute. > Basically it's like the wave is split into one room for the main wave > and then a compartment for each follower with a one way mirror doing the > seperating. > > -- > James Purser > http://wavingtheshiny.collaborynth.com.au > Wave Addresses: > [email protected] (wave.google.com) > [email protected] (wavesandbox.com) > [email protected] (collaborynth.com.au FedOne Server) > Skype: purserj1977 > GTalk: [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
