On 19 Feb 2013 08:47, "Ashley Ward" <ashley.w...@surevine.com> wrote: > > > > On 18/02/2013 18:19, "Ralph Meijer" <ral...@ik.nu> wrote: > > >On 2013-02-18 17:34, Kevin Smith wrote: > >> > >> Thoughts? > > > >Maybe this option is not very well suited for the case where there are > >potentially multiple publishers, as one of them going offline would > >result in the retraction of items published by others, too. > > > >I agree this should be described better. > > Maybe it would make more sense if purge_offline applied to the node owner > rather than the publisher? >
Except that you can have multiple node owners, too. So seeing as I can think of use cases where multiple publishers and partial purges happen, I think we should be sending retractions for partial purges and purge notifications for full purges - both subject to the notify_retract option, of course. Dave.