#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       
 Resolution:           |    Keywords:  blocks:8.2.0        
Next_action:  code     |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:           |    Blocking:                      
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Changes (by mstone):

  * keywords:  presence, collaboration, gabble => blocks:8.2.0
  * next_action:  never set => code


Old description:

> 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.

New description:

 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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Comment:

 I know this is easy, but Wad is right that this really needs to get fixed.

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