#4965 HIGH Never A: friends should be subscribed to on XMPP

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#4965: friends should be subscribed to on XMPP
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  Reporter:  daf               |       Owner:  morgs         
      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  presence-service  |     Version:                
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  Update.1?     
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment(by robot101):

 Apologies as I was away last week, but this isn't really the approach I
 was hoping for. We should hard-code a group ("Friends"?) on the server and
 only do synchronisation of our friends to that group. As you point out,
 removing everyone else from the roster will break the shared roster
 functionality. This defeats the point of introducing this patch at this
 point. We can't rely on changing the server and the laptops at the same
 time, so we want the laptops to *add* the Friends to whatever the server
 gives them, not just do one or the other.

 The aim of this change is to make sure that current laptops who rely on
 being subscribed to *everyone* can still function (ie still see their
 friends) with a server that's modified to produce some other groups such
 as "Nearby" (people on the same /24 or /96) and "Random" (30 other people)
 as described on
 http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2007-November/003230.html,
 rather than "Everybody".

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