[Adium-devl] 1.3.1b1

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Sep 2, 2008, at 11:17 PM, David Smith wrote:

>
> On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
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>> On Sep 2, 2008, at 8:39 PM, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
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>>> Help very much welcome on this. It is confusing the **** out of me.
>>
>>
>> What do you know so far?
>>
>> -Evan
>
> There appear to be two separate issues, but they may be related in  
> root cause. The first, which I have slightly more data on is an  
> interaction between "show offline group", "show groups", and the  
> contact visibility settings. The second, which is more important  
> imo, is the one where certain people mysteriously aren't visible,  
> and become visible again after twiddling the settings.


Okay, I think [25089] fixes the second issue.  Please try it out and  
get the user who is seeing the problem regularly to try it out and  
post back.

Cheers,
Evan



> Here's a transcript of a discussion I had with a user who's been  
> seeing it:
>
> Catfish_Man: I investigated the visibility issues you were running  
> into some
> Catfish_Man: there's some weird stuff going on there<Undecided.png>
> Jmrz: the boy went for a bike ride with my sister, she was all  
> "BLAKE COME FOR A BIKE RIDE WITH ME" and I didn't feel like going
> Jmrz: really?
> Jmrz: I updated to the latest version, no more - connected: offline
> Catfish_Man: oh, 1.3.1b1?
> Jmrz: that confused the hell out of me - but still wacky visibility
> Jmrz: yeah
> Jmrz: I tell it to get the beta versions
> Catfish_Man: yeah, that got fixed. Visibility is the last blocker  
> for 1.3.1
> Catfish_Man: Eric is bugging me about it 'cause he wants to release  
> on Tuesday
> Catfish_Man: I'm seeing interactions between 'show all', 'show  
> offline', 'show groups', and 'show offline group'
> Catfish_Man: that really don't make much sense to me<Frown.png>
> Catfish_Man: gonna try to figure it out tomorrow unless I get  
> distracted
> Jmrz: well, it doesn't make much sense to me either
> Jmrz: except the weird thing is, is that it only selects certain  
> contacts to show when I am signed out
> Jmrz: and they don't show when I am signed in
> Jmrz: it's so werid
> Jmrz: so far it's been blake, lunchy and heather
> Catfish_Man: hmm
> Catfish_Man: interesting, so it's like the online/offline-ness of  
> them got flipped?
> Jmrz: kind of
> Jmrz: let me see whether it does it when I sign out of adium and  
> I'll screenshot it
> Catfish_Man: thanks
> Jmrz: (note, it probably wont while I am trying to catch it doing  
> it<Sticking Out Tongue.png>)
> Jmrz: HAH
> Jmrz: IT DID
> Jmrz: heather is offline when I signed off, everyone else  
> disappeared, all the other groups and everyone else in that group  
> and she stayed there
> Jmrz: http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6038/picture1nu6.png
> Catfish_Man: could you take a picture of the 'View' menu as well?  
> (or just list how you have stuff set up in the show/hide section)
> Jmrz: and signing back in, heather is there, but blake is not
> Jmrz: http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/1646/picture2jo3.png
> Catfish_Man: ok cool; Show All, Show Groups, Don't use Offline Group
> Catfish_Man: I'm getting the sinking feeling it's not even related  
> to that, and there's actually two issues<Undecided.png>
> Jmrz: really? eek
> Catfish_Man: 'cause if I set it up like yours then do the following:  
> Turn on the online group, turn off groups, turn off show all, turn  
> on show offline
> Catfish_Man: then I don't see any online people
> Catfish_Man: which is definitely incorrect
> Catfish_Man: but not random like you're seeing
> Jmrz:<Frown.png>
> Jmrz: it's only started happening recentlys
> Jmrz: since I updated to 1.3 I think
> Catfish_Man: yes, it's a 1.3 regression
> Catfish_Man: unfortunately that pins it down to a 7 month period >.<
> Jmrz: if I sign back in and people are missing, I tell it to hide  
> certain contacts and then tell it to show certain contacts
> Jmrz: and they come back
> Catfish_Man: consistent with other reports I've seen of it
> Jmrz: or re-adding them works also and you don't end up with double  
> contacts or anything like that
> Catfish_Man: heh, yeah, there's guards against  
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