[Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: MUC Auto-Join

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Rachel Blackman wrote:
>> /me whispers "entity capabilities"...
> 
> Lord knows I'm in the pro-caps camp, Peter, but I think caps is 
> insufficient here.  If the conference room is offline when I come on 
> (i.e., the conference server is down), I don't get caps.  Thus, I don't 
> get the context data I need to know that this item is an offline 
> conference room, rather than an offline contact.

Use a better conference server. ;-)

> Sure, I'll get the data (in theory) when the thing comes online, but 
> having category='conference' in the roster item for it gives me enough 
> to work with /even when it's offline/, such as displaying it in a menu 
> of 'favorite chatrooms' but greying it out because the presence shows 
> that server is currently offline.

I'm not viscerally opposed to roster categories, just not sure where 
they'll go...

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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