[Server-devel] Fwd: [ejabberd] Fix or workaround for EJAB-731 - shared roster fails to show new user accts

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Guillaume Desmottes
<guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>>  - Do we need this patch to interop with 8.2 correctly? What does it do?
>
> IIRC, this patch introduced new type of shared roster: @online@,
> @recent@ and @nearby at . Vanilla ejabberd only supports @all at .

Ah, so it's the "old" patch, reapplied. I'd like to learn more about
it, are there any notes on how it works...anywhere? Who's the original
author?

>>  - Have you tested "vanilla" ejabberd for the bugs reported in EJAB-730/731?
>
> Yes. That's why I always mention @all@ instead of @online@ in the
> reports, but the problems were the same.

Thanks for confirming...

> I think if things are working fine with this patch using the @all@
> shared roster, there is good chance that fixes @online@ as well.

Ok. I'll try with @all@, and then see if I can merge...



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