Re: [Telepathy] Folks status, the addressbook problem

[Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume desmottes collabora co uk>]

Le mardi 30 octobre 2012 à 16:51 +0000, Philip Withnall a écrit :
> Another reason they’re used for storing linking data is that adding the
> linking data generally improves the quality of the user’s address book.
> For example, linking a Jabber contact to an EDS contact should result in
> the JID being added to the EDS contact’s list of JIDs. (I haven’t tested
> this recently, but that’s what the code’s meant to do.) This is
> unobtrusive and doesn’t mess up other EDS clients.

This also introduces some weird side effects. If I have Alice on GTalk
and Facebook but not in my EDS abook, she won't appear by default in
gnome-contacts. But as soon as I merge those 2 personas she will because
of this implementation detail.

This is not the intended behaviour according to Allan
( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676411#c12 ).

> Massive warning: the individual aggregator code is horrible, and has
> many irritating corner cases — but it works well at the moment (albeit
> slowly). If you want to rearchitect folks and make it all wonderful, I
> would strongly suggest you write a thorough set of unit tests for the
> aggregator first, or we *will* end up with regressions. Folks has a
> reputation for being unstable which I really don’t want perpetuated.

Amen to that.



        G.