Bug 22915

Summary:	[1.0?] Consider making Channels never close themselves
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Will Thompson <will>
Component:	tp-spec	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Will Thompson 2009-07-23 10:40:57 UTC

I don't think that channels should ever auto-close.

 * wjt doesn't think the CM should close text channels without the UI telling it to
smcv: wjt: apropos of?
wjt: (apropos of musings about edge cases like: you try to join a room, you're kicked before the channel finishes being dispatched. currently, the handler can't figure out what happened, partly because Group doesn't have "why was i kicked?" properties, and partly because the CM closes the channel when you're kicked.)
smcv: wjt: RESOLVED LATER tbh
wjt: the spec doesn't say it needs to auto-close :)
smcv: in practice, everything does, => UIs probably assume it
smcv: so it would be a semantic change to the spec even if the current semantics are largely unwritten
smcv: I would not be opposed to "any channel from which you can be kicked MUST be a group", which is a prerequisite
smcv: (because to not auto-close, it would have to have an "I'm not here" state, which is "SelfHandle not in Members")
 * wjt copies into bugzilla and goes back to work :)

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2014-01-23 19:07:19 UTC

We should maybe think about doing this before 1.0, because it'll be a pain to change otherwise.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 20:18:16 UTC

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