| Summary: | Presence in MUCs is always "online" | ||
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| Product: | Telepathy | Reporter: | Simon McVittie <smcv> |
| Component: | gabble | Assignee: | Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | 15747 | ||
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Description
Simon McVittie
2008-03-11 07:04:44 UTC
Senko has implemented the requested feature, but I've rejected it at least for the moment. Sending our presence status to chatrooms seems like a huge privacy violation, given that the stated purpose of the (narrow) subscribe and publish lists is restricting access to our presence status! Over-ruled the objection, on the following basis: With a pedantic interpretation, this is arguable a spec violation because it exposes your presence to handles who are not on your "publish" list. However, I think that given other protocols (essentially, anything but XMPP) exist where joining a chat will always expose your presence, I don't think it's reasonable for clients or users to rely on this additional exposure not happening anyway. Consider the absurdity of expecting that you can be invisible even when you've joined a group chat. If someone wants the XMPP-specific semantics badly, we can add a RoomPresence interface or somesuch, and they can set a property in order to publish a per-room presence. Merged in HEAD, should be included in Gabble 0.7.7. |
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