[Sugar-devel] known issues with collaboration in XS 0.5.2

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 19:48, Martin Langhoff <martin at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> I have a local XS 0.6 that is working fine but I'm finding that the XS
>> 0.5.2 at jabber.sugarlabs.org is not returning some results for some
>> of the queries that I make.
>
> There are very important bugfixes in the "final" ejabberd that is in
> olpcxs-testing repo for xs-0.6
>
> I should release a 0.6.1 with the contents of olpcxs-testing, but
> things haven't been kind to me lately.
>
> You aren't telling us exactly what problems you saw on the old
> ejabberd.

I'm noticing that the server never replies to some PEP queries about
buddyinfo and activity properties. The symptom on the Sugar side is
that the DBus calls timeout.

> All I can say is: that old ejabberd (+patches) had plenty of
> gremlins and unexplainable behaviours. The ejabberd in olpcxs-testing
> has been 100% reliable in behaviour, and I reworked the patches until
> I didn't see any buggy behaviour.

Thanks, this answers perfectly my question.

> Highly recommended. Should work with just a rebuild if you're not on F9.
>
> I cannot confirm that the right patches are in the latest ejabberd on F13.

Ok, will be keeping an eye on further updates to the School Server
software and will test Sugar against its jabber server.

> cheers,
>
>
> m
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