GSoC Idea - XMPP

[Mark Doliner]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Joachim Lutz <octolotl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> My name is Joachim Lutz, I study computer science (Bachelor) at
> Saarland University (Germany) and would like to participate at Google
> Summer of Code.
>
> I had the idea of extending the current XMPP status handling so that
> priorities are more efficient to use. If multiple clients are online
> using the same XMPP-account you can use priorities to control which one
> of the clients will receive a sent message.
>
> The approach would be as following:
> - One can set a basic priority for the account
> - Every status has a value which will be added to the base priority
> - Status priorities are:
>  Chatty > Online > Away > Ext. Away > DnD > Invisible >= Offline
> - Invisible is specially set
> - Online sets the priority to the base priority
>
> Example:
>
> Given a base priority of 30 and 3 stati (chatty, online, offline and
> invisble not counted) the assignment of the stati would be as following:
>
> Chatty:    30 +   1 *10
> Online:    30 +   0 *10
> Away:      30 + (-1)*10
> Ext. Away: 30 + (-2)*10
> DnD:       30 + (-3)*10
>
> The value 10 is calculated by the base priority divided by the amount
> of stati dynamically assigned (currently: dnd, away and ext. away).
>
> That's it, basically. This should offer the most flexibility at a
> minimum level of complexity (one value to configure).
>
> I'd be happy to see some feedback/comments from you.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Joachim

Hey Joachim.  I'm not extremely familiar with the jabber protocol, but
I think this is a cool idea.  My biggest concern is that I suspect
this change alone might not require 10 weeks worth of work, and so may
not be appropriate as a stand-alone summer of code project.

--Mark