#8354 BLOC 8.2.0 (: Default presence service is a bad idea

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#8354: Default presence service is a bad idea
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 Reporter:  wad                              |         Owner:  marco               
     Type:  defect                           |        Status:  new                 
 Priority:  blocker                          |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  sugar                            |       Version:  not specified       
 Keywords:  presence, collaboration, gabble  |   Next_action:  never set           
 Verified:  0                                |     Blockedby:                      
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 Especially if it is a partly functional server.

 Build 8.2-759 has a presence server specified by default.  This is  a very
 bad idea.

 Two laptops, sitting together anywhere in the world using an Internet
 connected access point for WiFi will try to use a presence service located
 at the other end of a thin pipe for collaboration, instead of
 communicating directly with one another using Salut.

 And if the goal was allowing G1G1 recipients to find other XOs to
 collaborate with "out-of-the-box", that won't work either:  twenty
 thousand (or more) XOs trying to use the same presence server will
 cause certain havoc.

 Fixing this is not easy, as deleting /home/olpc/.sugar/default/config
 merely results in a new config file with the default being created.   You
 can't remove it using the control panel, as it refuses to take a blank
 server name (trac #8353).    You have to manually edit the config file
 with vi...

 The real kicker is that there IS a presence server at the default
 (olpc.collabora.co.uk), so laptops connect to it, but it doesn't work
 right, so no collaboration happens.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8354>
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