[Debian-rtc-admin] Bug#803396: Bug#803396: options for developers who don't want to use debian.org XMPP

[Matthew Wild]

On 6 November 2015 at 09:48, Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda at deb.at> wrote:
>      Hi,
>
> * Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro> [2015-10-29 17:09:36 CET]:
>> If a developer has their own XMPP account elsewhere or simply doesn't
>> want to use it, any requests to be in their roster will simply not be
>> responded to.  Should we provide an option to automatically reject
>> requests sent to accounts that are not used or automatically give some
>> reply scripted by the developer?
>
>  I think a forward possibility would be useful.  The LDAP already has a
> field for Jabber ID.  I guess it might make sense to forward things to
> there; I'm not sure if it's possible to send stuff back somehow then
> though.

You're basically right. Forwarding could be done, but XMPP is not
email - it's not possible to forward with the same 'from' address, so
it would be a bit unintuitive. Likewise there's no way they could
reply back via debian.org to use the address as an alias.

There is a 'redirect' error we could use, however I don't know of
anyone using it in practice, which is a shame (it's a bit of a
chicken-and-egg problem). There were also some security concerns about
XMPP servers automatically following redirects on behalf of users.

Regards,
Matthew