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And so will Psi, after our summer of code student has finished it.
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As more and more services start dropping the walls around their closed gardens and open their chats and start federating, people will start having Jabber accounts on different services (Google Talk, Facebook, Jabber.org, ...). So, you will have more and more contacts on your contactlist that are actually the same person, so you want to group them together as one contact, so that you can just say "I want to chat to this person" without having to start looking with which account he is online.Quote by Sander:What is the usefulness of this feature btw? I have trouble to see how this can be useful? Can anyone help me to explain?
How do you change this on the server, without breaking XMPP? A message is always sent to a JID, and a meta-contact has multiple JIDs.Quote by Sander:Or why not let the server handle this instead of making the client more complex and increasing the c2s bandwith?
In some cases (e.g. important contacts) you need redundancy to achieve 100% availability. Servers can be down, but the probability that multiple servers are down is low.Why not simply deleting 1 of the 2 then?
If you would implement this on server side, the client must implement is also, because you would need some kind of method to manage your meta contacts.Or why not let the server handle this
If you would implement this on server side, the client must implement is also, because you would need some kind of method to manage your meta contacts.
This post was edited on 05-16-2008, 13:10 by