Privacy Rewrite GSoC Project

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Sulabh Mahajan<sulabh.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> But thinking about this further... I think a better design would be to
>> annotate buddies on the buddy list with their privacy state, and the
>> prpl just exports a mapping from attribute type to the flags just
>> discussed, indicating which attributes can be set and what they mean.
>
> And what about the people we have blocked or denied to receive our presence
> who are not in the buddy list, how do you propose to store the privacy
> settings for these people. They are not in the buddy list, and there
> settings cane be different from the "all others" privacy settings.
>
> I can create a super list consisting of the complete buddy list plus those
> users we have given some privacy setting, along with a meta user "all
> others", like the one in MSN.
> How is this approach compared to the first one you mentioned in your mail,
> ie to have several lists and let prpls export the ones they support
>
> Eagerly waiting for your response.

You only need two lists: allowed people, and blocked people.
Everything else can be determined by checking whether the buddy is in
one of those lists.

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Felipe Contreras