Talk:Presence Service

Roadmap

I'm going to massage the bug list into a feature list... must still add telepathy-other tickets that are relevant to presence in general. --morgs 10:13, 5 February 2008 (EST)

Here's a list of known issues / planned features:

(includes Presence Service and telepathy-other tickets, but not gabble or salut tickets)

Server work

(Not tied to a particular release, but in general wanted ASAP...)

• #5313 [telepathy-other] Ejabberd work by Process One
• #4045 [telepathy-other] Scaling of jabber server server
• #5311 #5309 [telepathy-other] Server XMPP Component Protocol to replace shared roster

Update 1

• #6295 try opportunistic registration if authentication fails

- tested in joyride, awaiting approval

• #5310 [telepathy-other] automatically enable shared roster on school server
• #5470 [telepathy-other] importing telepathy is slow
• #5834 [telepathy-other] ejabberd RPM needs to install/create cert
• #5933 [distro] point update.1 to a different jabber server address

Update 1.1 (hypothetical Mongolia release)

Issues needed for Mongolia:

• #6299 presence service should disable salut in the presence of school servers on mesh

- related: #5908 Laptop unable to connect to schoolserver jabber server

Update.2

Bug fixes for Update.1 that didn't make code freeze:

• #6142 Salut buddies aren't displayed in the mesh view

- Fixed in release 0.75.0, tested in Joyride

Older bugs:

• #4009 My XO is friends with itself
• #5829 Chat Activity displays other users names weird

- failure to get buddy properties

New issues:

• #6248 Presence service is broken with recent NetworkManager

Ongoing tubes reduction:

• #4757 PS Activity objects: replace GetChannels() with something more useful

Handling disconnection:

• #5620 how should activities handle lost network connections?

Unprioritised

• #6300 Stop using ipv4 addresses for anything

Future

Features:

• #4043 Group support

Tickets:

• #3506 XOs connected to jabber server AND can link local don't share well
• #4403 Ability to switch from gabble to salut manually
• #5618 machine with no name
• #6069 phantom applications in neighborhood
• #2738 Re-enable avatars (buddy photos)

- This was disabled during Trial 2 for performance reasons. Since then, multiple changes have bitrotted the code, including removing pygtk from the PS code.

• #3371 Collaboration between kids on different XMPP servers
• #4404 Ability to migrate activities between Telepathy connections
• #4494 activities don't successfully launch if pservice.get_preferred_connection fails in init
• #5032 Presence service Activity.joined property
• #4794 activities advertised in the PS should include the visible name