Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-14 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 14/08/14 01:54, Holger Weiß wrote: > * Daniel Pocock [2014-08-13 21:00]: >> On 12/08/14 14:59, Dave Cridland wrote: Should that make regular XMPP work again or does the other person have to do the same thing too perhaps? >>> It may or may not. It is entirely unclear, Google provide no

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Holger Weiß
* Kim Alvefur [2014-08-13 21:50]: > On 2014-08-13 21:34, David Holl wrote: > > I like the idea of the server-side kludge, never mind that it is ugly to > > implement such a special case. But we can holy war some other time > > about what's uglier Google's broken implementation, or the value in >

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Holger Weiß
* Daniel Pocock [2014-08-13 21:00]: > On 12/08/14 14:59, Dave Cridland wrote: > > > Should that make regular XMPP work again or does the other person have > > > to do the same thing too perhaps? > > > > It may or may not. It is entirely unclear, Google provide no > > documentation or advice that

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 8/13/14, 1:30 PM, Philipp Hancke wrote: A cynical person could also make a counter-strike: display some warning popup in the regular XMPP clients each time somebody tries to start a new chat with a user @gmail.com and doesn't receive a response in 2 minutes. "Warning: the person you have trie

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:14:41AM +0400, Jack L. Frost wrote: > Users will riot for a bit and then proceed to educate their friends > about the fact that there are better jabber servers. That's an incredibly naive, myopic attitude. "better Jabber server" isn't the point. *communicating* with o

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Jack L. Frost
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:14:41AM +0400, Jack L. Frost wrote: > Take a stand and solve the problem once and for all. Other solutions are ugly. Another argument towards this is the fact that Google has shown us time and again that they don't care about being a part of the federation. Why should we

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Jack L. Frost
> Are there any better ideas for dealing with this user "experience" when > naively attempting to chat with a Google Hangouts user? There is one[0]. Refusing s2s over unencrypted connections cuts off google's xmpp as a consequence (they don't have s2s encryption at all). And I honestly think that

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread David Holl
hahaha! Bravo! I'll give it a spin... On 8/13/14, 3:50 PM, Kim Alvefur wrote: > On 2014-08-13 21:34, David Holl wrote: >> I like the idea of the server-side kludge, never mind that it is ugly to >> implement such a special case. But we can holy war some other time >> about what's uglier Google

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Kim Alvefur
On 2014-08-13 21:34, David Holl wrote: > I like the idea of the server-side kludge, never mind that it is ugly to > implement such a special case. But we can holy war some other time > about what's uglier Google's broken implementation, or the value in > raising awareness of the issues at hand...

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread David Holl
I like the idea of the server-side kludge, never mind that it is ugly to implement such a special case. But we can holy war some other time about what's uglier Google's broken implementation, or the value in raising awareness of the issues at hand... Server-side Prosody plugin, anyone? :-) [Hey

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Philipp Hancke
A cynical person could also make a counter-strike: display some warning popup in the regular XMPP clients each time somebody tries to start a new chat with a user @gmail.com and doesn't receive a response in 2 minutes. "Warning: the person you have tried to contact uses gmail.com. It is possibl

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Jack L. Frost
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 09:00:07PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > A cynical person could also make a counter-strike: display some warning > popup in the regular XMPP clients each time somebody tries to start a > new chat with a user @gmail.com and doesn't receive a response in 2 > minutes. "Warning

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-13 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 12/08/14 14:59, Dave Cridland wrote: > > This really appears to undermine the credibility of XMPP if a big > provider is allowing messages to silently disappear. > > > Yes. A cynical person might suppose that by undermining a federated open > standard, this would help draw people i

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-12 Thread Dave Cridland
On 12 August 2014 12:22, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Can anybody comment on the current status of interop between Google > (gmail.com) users and the rest of the world? > The only people who can definitively comment are Google. Personally, I have a Prosody server and various clients like Jitsi and I

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 12/08/14 13:27, Neil Stevens wrote: > Existing Gmail users remain on XMPP unless they switch to Hangouts. > Then they stop existing in XMPP. That seems to be inconsistent though - they do still appear to exist in XMPP, e.g. in my buddy list. They just don't receive my messages. I just confirm

Re: [Operators] Google status?

2014-08-12 Thread Neil Stevens
Existing Gmail users remain on XMPP unless they switch to Hangouts. Then they stop existing in XMPP. I *think* new Gmail users get Hangouts from the start but I'm not sure. On Aug 12, 2014, at 7:22 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > Can anybody comment on the current status of interop between Go

[Operators] Google status?

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
Can anybody comment on the current status of interop between Google (gmail.com) users and the rest of the world? Personally, I have a Prosody server and various clients like Jitsi and I understand they correctly implement XMPP. I've noticed that gmail.com users appear in my buddy list but some