jdev - 2019-09-01

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22:47:07 tom hello
22:47:22 tom I am a bit confused on how OMEMO pubsub nodes should be setup
22:47:39 tom should the subscriber model be presence or open?
22:47:46 tom https://upload.nuegia.net/77815d03-9a9f-4e00-bf38-136c838fba39/screenshot.png
22:48:56 pep. generally clients set the access_model to open for OMEMO stuff
22:51:00 tom pep., would that be the subscriber or publisher model?
22:51:28 pep. subscriber
22:51:32 tom I see
22:51:34 Zash Generally this gets handled by the client without the user needing to do anything tho
22:51:38 pep. publisher is probably whitelist with your own jid
22:52:01 tom the default it was subscriber model set to presence
22:52:25 pep. Which client?
22:52:27 tom but that was causing people to be unable to communicate with my over OMEMO unless we accepted roster requests both ways
22:52:35 tom Gajim 0.6.X
22:52:42 pep. 0.16.x?
22:52:48 tom yes I mean 0.16.X
22:52:50 pep. I guess that's been fixed in 1.x
22:53:10 tom I can't use gtk3 so I'm going to have to fork 0.16.9
22:53:19 pep. Sure
22:53:32 pep. Maybe you can backport the fixes, dunno
22:53:40 tom I'm just trying to figure out how it should work so I can fix bugs in my fork
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22:54:50 tom so just to be clear, there are multiple axolotl pubsub nodes
22:54:57 tom https://upload.nuegia.net/d6abd617-c7df-4d79-99e2-afef2937d29d/screenshot.png
22:55:19 pep. I'd recommend trying to backport stuff from the stable/master branch, so you don't have to rewrite everything yourself, but just the graphics toolkit bits
22:55:57 Zash Presumably the same settings would need to be applied to all different nodes to avoid weird interop problems
22:55:57 tom so I've modified axolotl.device list to be open subscriber model, but what are the bundles:somelongnumber?
22:56:12 pep. tom, same permissions
22:56:13 tom are those private conversations? should those be presence only or open as well?
22:56:45 Zash Each device picks a random integer and creates a node for it
22:56:54 Zash IIRC it publishes pre-keys or something there
22:57:02 Zash (I'm not a fan of this design)
22:57:23 tom I'm sorry I'm confused, I thought the devicelist node stored the keys
22:57:27 Zash No
22:57:35 tom what exactly is the difference between devicelist and bundles?
22:57:49 Zash The device list stores those numbers
22:58:38 tom ok so when sending OMEMO messages the backlog (offline encrypted messaging) is still stored in MAM serverside not a special pubsub node
22:58:51 Zash IIRC this is because you can't count on being able to store more than one item per node
22:59:04 tom the device list contains a list of the bundles and the bundles contain the key right?
22:59:32 Zash But OMEMO got publish options and subscriber models implemented and deployed, so it could just as well have used a single node with an item per device
23:00:30 tom it SHOULD as in says the in the spec or are you saying the spec should have did that instead but it doesnt?
23:01:28 Zash You SHOULD assume that I have no idea what I'm talking about.
23:01:34 tom ok
23:01:48 Zash Not a client developer.
23:03:57 tom ok So I've modified all the axolotl device list and bundle nodes to be open. I'll experiment with this and go over the spec extra fine. If this ends up being correct I'll modify the source
23:04:01 tom to be open by default
23:04:40 Zash DO NOT do that for every PEP node
23:04:54 pep. yeah, just OMEMO
23:04:59 pep. devicelist and bundles
23:05:25 pep. Also as I said above, maybe you should try backporting stuff from master rather than rewriting everything
23:05:48 pep. I might every ask lovetox (current maintainer) and see if it's not worth starting from 1.x and porting it to gtk2 if that's really what you want
23:05:53 tom only did that for the eu.siacs.conversations.axolotl.devicelist and eu.siacs.conversations.axolotl.bundles:$rand nodes
23:06:08 pep. I might even ask lovetox (current maintainer) and see if it's not worth starting from 1.x and porting it to gtk2 if that's really what you want
23:06:09 Zash Good
23:06:34 pep. Also maybe the gajim discussions could go in gajim :)
23:07:25 pep. Ah wait this is jdev@, I though we were in operators@, I have this mental picture of "tom" the ghost of operators@
23:07:41 Zash How supported is GTK2 these days?
23:09:13 tom >pep.‎: Also as I said above, maybe you should try backporting stuff from master rather than rewriting everything I'll take that into consideration but as I understand it the 1.X changes do more than just switch the toolkit but change around the user interface very extensively and include functions lke hamburger menus. These things don't exist in gtk2. Also, the really only things that I need to fix in the 0.16.X client I'm aware of is this OMEMO pubsub thing and changing the Jingle implementation to use a more modern version of libfarstream (or other protocol implementing Jingle) and work with either a modern version of gstreamer or better just use ffmpeg instead
23:09:43 pep. I think there's a lot more things you don't see that have been fixed
23:09:48 pep. Lots of code refactor as well
23:10:10 tom I don't think the main gajim developers are very open to making the 1.X branch support gtk2 or any other toolkit like qt5 either
23:10:15 tom they seem pretty set on gtk3
23:10:32 Zash Switching toolkits is no small task
23:11:03 tom >Lots of code refactor as well Yeah i can see. there's lots of single-character variables in the source code like somebody just copy-pasted from stack overflow
23:11:10 Zash I would be happy if lower level libraries are reusable
23:11:25 Zash Like, protocol stuff
23:12:01 tom my experience with gstreamer has always been painful. Where it's always been better to use ffmpeg if possible and if not install gstreamer-libav plugin that just wraps ffmpeg anyways
23:13:10 tom I've met some camera developers who say they like using gstreamer internally rather than learning ffmpeg because it's more abstracted but I already know ffmpeg and I've had nothing but problems with gstreamer dating back to KDE3 on slackware
23:14:07 tom >How supported is GTK2 these days? It receives bugfixes on it's own branch and is generally considered 'mature' or 'finished'
23:14:22 tom It's also first class on Devuan even all the way to sid
23:14:41 pep. Devuan, heh
23:14:47 pep. runs away now
23:14:50 tom still use exclusivly by Gimp and claws-mail
23:15:16 pep. iirc Gimp was going to jump to gtk4
23:17:26 tom yeah, the problem with that is that gtk3-+ is considered the GNOME toolkit. The development direction is only geared to serve GNOME's needs. The GNOME3 development team have explicitly stated this. While at the same time the gtk2 toolkit is the Gimp toolkit. Was originally designed as a generic graphical toolkit to make gimp with. However it was not explicity for gimp
23:17:47 tom so a lot of other *nix programs use gtk2.
23:18:01 pep. Yeah I've read that whole discussion before and I'm not replaying it
23:18:06 tom k
23:18:40 tom but yeah, I'm not running GNOME so it gtk3 really does not meet my needs so I'm needing to fork
23:19:02 tom I appreciate your pointers pep. and Zash . thank yo
23:19:46 tom u
23:20:19 Zash np
23:20:29 pep. While Gajim devs might not be interested in supporting gtk2 anymore, being a friendly fork would be nice I think. If it's in your cords, talk to lovetox a bit, even if it's just asking advice on where to look at, what has been changed etc.
23:21:02 pep. You might want to stick to gtk2 but getting bug fixes can be a good thing :)
23:21:52 pep. (Also not annoying other users with bugs we've already seen here and there and that are fixed in master :))
23:22:26 tom ok. I'm not sure what you mean by 'friendly fork'
23:22:55 Zash MVC-ish separation of UI code and other application logic is good, so you might be able to ensure/push for that 🙂
23:25:32 pep. Yeah, either try to make the new code easy to adapt to new toolkits, to make it easier for you to have your gtk2 patches on top
23:26:08 pep. It's a bit more maintenance for the gajim devs, but if you're willing to help maybe they would be ok? And you benefit from new features/bugs (fixes) etc.
23:31:57 tom maybe. I don't see me needing to change toolkits in the near future, if I was going to do that I'd probably be going from gtk2 to qt but going from gtk to qt is a much bigger change than going to one gtk version to another. I don't expect to have to save development model as Gajim. I'm more interested in conservative LTS releases and stabilizing those as much as possible than implementing many features very fast. However everything is still very much up in the air right now so I'll definitely think about it. And as I see it currently the Gajim devs have a very different grand vision in mind than I do right now.
23:32:49 tom I also see myself using the XFCE 4.12 theme engine for at least another 6 years and gtk2 is very well supported there
23:33:19 Zash I thought XFCE were going GTK3 too
23:33:29 tom yes, but Debian isn't
23:33:44 tom nor am i
23:33:59 pep. Debian isn't?
23:34:08 pep. So they'll maintain their fork downstream?
23:34:18 tom Debian will maintain the 4.12 release for 6+ years
23:34:35 tom with security patches and bugfixes only
23:34:43 pep. What kind of Debian releases are you talking about?
23:34:46 pep. LTS ?
23:34:49 tom stable
23:35:11 pep. stable only go 4 years no? + maybe another year for LTS?
23:35:58 Zash Not 3 years? (new release about every 2,
23:36:12 tom I don't know how well versed you are with Devuan/Debian release models but ounce a STABLE RELEASE becomes OLDSTABLE RELEASE it then goes into LTS support by a private company that employs a team of fulltime developers
23:36:12 Zash +1 y support) (gah why is enter there?)
23:36:20 pep. stable (2) -> oldstable (2) -> lts (1)
23:36:24 tom as long as the funding goals are met it's 6 years
23:36:32 pep. ah
23:36:44 pep. I'm not well versed into LTS tbh
23:36:56 pep. Also I'm surprised I haven't yet shouted HERESY all over this room
23:37:14 Zash pep., I've been very tempted to ask whether this fork is Python2 😛
23:37:28 pep. That makes me really sad
23:37:31 tom https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
23:37:44 pep. tom, yeah I know about them, just never bothered to read
23:38:17 pep. I shall return to my omemo stuff now.. (another fun thing to play with)
23:38:21 tom Well, I would be tempted to convert Gajim 0.16.X to python3
23:38:53 Zash Oh, so the py3 switch was in 1.x then?
23:39:02 Zash (I've not been following Gajim that closely)
23:41:25 tom let me check
23:43:30 tom yes, It looks like Gajim.py specifies the python interpreter, and the default version in Devuan ASCII is Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux2