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

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Le lundi 22 décembre 2008 à 13:54 -0200, Martin Langhoff a écrit :
> 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?

This patch was started by Rob and then finished/polished by P1. The
rational was to create new kind of shared roster groups that would be a
subset of @all@ to, hopefully, improve the scalability issues.


> >>  - 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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