[JDEV] Resources and Priorities Questions

[Dave]

Another problem with having it implemented server-side is transportation:
when you leave for work, you're not there yet.  Any messages sent during
that time would go to your home account (because that account had the
most recent activity), and you'd never find out about those messages
until you got back home from work (and if you're very unlucky, the guy
who tried contacting you on your way to work will try again on your way
back from work).

Clearly, this is a client-side problem, and asking the server to solve it
wouldn't be too wise.  Asking the server to help out (maybe supporting
an "I'm now here!" message, or something like that) may be interesting,
though.

Dave Cohen <dave at dave.tj>


Peter Millard wrote:
> 
> Derek -
> 
> This could be implemented client side by having the client's auto-away
> settings automatically goto '0' priority, and when you have activity, the
> client kicks back to the "normal" priority for that client (say 1 or 2).
> This would be a lot harder to implement server side I think.
> 
> Peter M.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd at megacity.org>
> To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:36 AM
> Subject: [JDEV] Resources and Priorities Questions
> 
> 
> > OK, let me see if I understand something properly:
> >
> > 1.) If user at server/Home sends a message to "someone else", that
> > someone else should reply to, obviously, user at server/Home, since
> > that's where it knows user IS, correct?
> >
> > 2.) The Jabber book, on p.127, says:
> >
> > "In the event there's a priority tie, the most recent connection to
> > the Jabber server wins"
> >
> > By connection, do we mean "Session start" or "activity seen"? The
> > reason I ask is that we have a lot of employees with dedicated access
> > at home, and it would make sense that folks would just leave their
> > Jabber client running at home and running at work. Now, to make sure
> > they always get their messages, they can either:
> >
> > (a) constantly twiddle the priorities to be "higher than the other place"
> > (b) leave them at the same priority, but every time they
> > (go-home|get-to-work) sign out and sign back in
> >
> > but a nicer alternative would be:
> >
> > (c) have the server know "ah, Home and Work have the same priority,
> > but I last saw ACTIVITY from Work, so they must be there." (or vice
> > versa)
> >
> > Is "C" do-able?
> >
> > D
> >
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