[Adium-devl] Solving, once and for all, problems with contact list ordering and grouping and aliases

[Chris Forsythe]

On Mar 10, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2007, at 04:49:04, Colin Barrett wrote:
>> Sync all of this to a server on adiumx.com or adium.org or what not.
>
> Let's allow the user to override the server name, so that an  
> organization could have a custom Adium-contact-list server.
>
> Perhaps we could even allow syncing it to .Mac.

That confirms what I thought he was saying. This doesn't seem like  
something we should waste on our hosting. Come on, if the protocols  
support this we should just make the protocols do the work, not  
create some new webservice we'll have to support for forever and a  
day. If the protocols don't support this, then we shouldn't be doing  
this.

If adiumx.com or wherever we put this goes down what happens to their  
aliases?

What if our servers get compromised?

What kind of security can we guarantee on this data?

What about people who are behind problematic networks and need to  
request open ports and whatnot and need to specify specific  
protocols? Do we just save their xmpp aliases on adiumx.com as well?

This is a bad idea. This proposal goes way beyond what we should be  
doing. .Mac syncing is one thing, but actually providing a web  
service to do this is not something we should be doing. I'm not sure  
how you got the idea that this is the best solution to the problem,  
I'm only seeing one good thing that would come out of it, and a whole  
lot of potential bad things which we would most likely see at some  
points.

Chris