1023495 - [meta] Incorporate IM into Desktop Loop client

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1108893

(Hello (Loop) :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[:shell escalante]

This is NOT committed - but something we will look into what it takes as we make progress in Fx33.

Comment 1

[:shell escalante]

EARLY stages.  Romain has been talking with Tarek/Alexis, so they are aware of it.  They have a PoC and Eric discussed this also with XMPP

Comment 2

[Romain Testard [:RT]]

I think there is some confusion here.
We discussed IM, not SMS - is this what this bug refers to?
IM will be required for FF38, not FF34 although I agree we need investigations earlier than this and I assume this is what the bug is about?

Comment 3

[Alexis Metaireau (:alexis)]

I'm not sure what this is about also, Shell, can you please add more context as to what you have in mind with this feature?

Comment 4

[:shell escalante]

corrected to IM rather than SMS and put past Fx34.  we just need to start investigating and having on radar towards end of Fx34/early 35 for later implementation.

Comment 5

[Alexis Metaireau (:alexis)]

Could you provide some more information as to what are the scenarii we want to support?

Here are a number of questions we had to think about when started digging on how to do if for the server-side:

- Do we want to support multiple devices? If so, are all the devices supposed to get a notification on a new message? Is there a concept of conversation? If so, should only new conversation trigger a nofication on each device?
- What is the storage scenario? What are the user expectations if an user loses her device? Should she get a copy of the old conversation showing up?

We started a wiki page here and a github project with a PoC of something. It of course needs some more information, but feedback would be appreciated!

see https://github.com/mozilla-services/messaging#faq and https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/FxChat

Comment 6

[Romain Testard [:RT]]

Alexis, here are the scenarios I had originally, in 2 chronological phases: 

Phase 1:
I want to send an IM to a specific contact
I want to receive IMs from my contacts
I want to be notified of new IMs if I am not on the Loop interface (not only conversations)
I want to receive IMs that were send to me as I was offline when I come online
I want to IM an offline contact so he receives it when he comes online
I want to use emoticons in my IMs
I want my IM history with a specific contact to be available on my device until I delete it

Phase 2:
I want to see the online status of my contacts
I can set my own online status
I want to add contacts to an existing IM session with a contact
I want an IM sent to a group IM session to be seen by all participants of the group
I want to see IMs sent by any participant to a group IM session that I am part of
I want to see the IM history from a group IM session
I want to be able to join an IM group session when people invite me
I want to see the list of a group IM session participants
I want to access my IM history as I authenticate on a new device
I want to receive IM messages on multiple devices if I happen to be logged in to multiple devices

Comment 7

[Romain Testard [:RT]]

IM will come in Phase 2 (post MVP) although it seems this bug blocks loop_mvp
I mark this bug as blocking the backlog.

Comment 8

[:shell escalante]

we'll be talking about this in Phase 2- removing ni? for now.

Comment 9

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

I'd love to do this, but this isn't on our near-term roadmap currently.

Comment 10

[:shell escalante]

even though meta - putting in backlog as it's not broken down into work yet.  there has been work done on XMPP design by adam and martin.