[Server-devel] Collaboration unreliable 0.5

[Anna]

2008/12/14 David Leeming <leeming at pipolfastaem.gov.sb>

> This is intermittent; 30 mins ago I did have 3 out of 4 showing, but after
> rebooting everything and waiting 30 mins, still no sign of any.
>

My user group helping me test XS 0.5 has noticed the same issue.  It's not
limited to XOs in the neighborhood view, either.  Several of us use other
chat clients like finch, pidgin, gajim, and adium (on the Mac), and the
buddy list in those does not reliably populate.  Luckily we had already
established the convention of a permanent MUC named "chat," which no one had
trouble joining.  There, at least, we could see and chat with everyone
fairly reliably.  That is not an acceptable solution for children, of
course.

Our theory was that ejabberd isn't "pushing" out all the roster data to
other connected users or there's a longer time interval in between pushes.
We noticed if we stayed on long enough, eventually more folks would show up
in the buddy list or the XO network home, but it seemed competely random.

I think it's gotten better lately, but that's probably subjective.

Anna Schoolfield
Birmingham
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