[JDEV] Yabber

[michael at aurora.gen.nz]

Settle down.  It's just a bug (albeit a very very annoying one) with the
Auto-away code.  It's only been reported once (by you) and no one has
given us any ideas how to recreate it (it doesn't seem to happen on all
machines)

Unfortunately we were only notified of it shortly after Marc left Brazil
to move back to the UK, and he is computerless at the moment - hence the
delay in getting a fix out.  It will be looked at it as soon has he can
get his hands on a machine.

In the meantime I have put a warning on the website, disabled auto-way by
default, and modified the installer to pop up a warning telling people not
to enable it.  The the most constructive thing you can do if you see
anyone flooding you with presence packets, is to tell them to disable
auto-away and check the website for updates, or to move to a non-alpha
client.

And no - we have no way to make the fix a mandatory release.  Are you
offering to fix update.yabber.org so that it actually works?

Michael.


> This is a public shaming for the Yabber client:
>
> 20021003T16:57:54>>> <presence from='vapor at jabber.66oc.org/Yabber'
> id='315' to='stpeter at jabber.org'><show>xa</show><status>I am
> available</status></presence>
[Snip]
> 20021003T16:58:05>>> <presence from='vapor at jabber.66oc.org/Yabber'
> id='327' to='stpeter at jabber.org'><show>xa</show><status>I am
> available</status></presence>
>
> PLEASE FIX THIS and make the new release a mandatory upgrade. You are
> flooding the Jabber network with redundant presence packets.
>
> Peter
>
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> Peter Saint-Andre
> Jabber Software Foundation
> http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php
>
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