GSoC Idea - XMPP

[Nicolas Vérité]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:49, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:
> 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.

You could also use the Remote controlling of clients:
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0146.html
Especially the "Change Status" part:
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0146.html#set-status

It is based on Ad-Hoc Commands:
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0050.html

Basically, XMPP entities exhange remote commands, by using a forms
exchange mechanism, much like a wizard. When specifically talking
about remote controlling of clients, a user can control his client at
home from work, or all his clients from his mobile phone, etc. He can
not only control the priorities, but also the status, as well as
message forwarding, and other use cases.

I think this is very interesting, from a Pidgin/libpurple point of
view, as well as training for a student!... ;-)

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