918516 - [B2G][SMS] Group message sent to multiple recipients is listed as separate threads

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::SMS, defect)

Description

[KTucker [:KTucker][Inactive 3/4/2016]]

Attachment: groupmessage.png

Description:
When a user sends a message to multiple recipients, the messages are listed as separated messages instead of one group message.

Repro Steps:
1)  Updated to Buri Build ID: 20130916040205
2)  Tap on the "SMS" icon to open messaging.
3)  Tap on the "Compose New Message" icon.
4)  Add multiple recipients to the "To" line.
5)  Type a message into the body text field and send the message.

Actual:
Each recipient of the group message is listed individually in messages instead of being in one SMS thread.

Expected:
A group sent SMS is listed as one message thread in messages.

Environmental Variables
Build ID: 20130916040205
Gecko: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c4bcef90cef9
Gaia: a0079597d510ce8ea0b9cbb02c506030510b9eeb
Platform Version: 26.0a1

Notes:
Repro frequency: (100%)
Test Suite Name: (SMS)
UCID: (messages-001)
Link to failed test case: https://moztrap.mozilla.org/manage/case/7952/
See attached: (screenshot)

Comment 1

[KTucker [:KTucker][Inactive 3/4/2016]]

Attachment: MultipleSMS.txt

Comment 2

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

We discussed this a lot in the past, and we decided to go with this solution. Even if it's not completely adequate, we thought it was the most adequate.

You need to think about what happens after you send this group SMS:

* when you'll go in the thread for one of the user, do you want to see the group sms that you sent ?
* when one of the recipients answers you, do you want that the answer is in the group sms thread, or in the individual recipient thread ?

That's why the current implemented solution is, in our opinion, the best possible.

ktucker> maybe your testcase is wrong here, because we changed this while we were developing 1.1.

Marking WONTFIX then.

Comment 3

[Angela Hubenya]

Tc 7952 has been disabled.

Comment 4

[KTucker [:KTucker][Inactive 3/4/2016]]

When the user sends a group MMS, the sent message will only show as one message thread instead of separating into individual sent message threads. What is the expected behavior for MMS?

Comment 5

[Rick Waldron [:rwaldron]]

(In reply to ktucker from comment #4)
> When the user sends a group MMS, the sent message will only show as one
> message thread instead of separating into individual sent message threads.
> What is the expected behavior for MMS?

Exactly as described

Comment 6

[KTucker [:KTucker][Inactive 3/4/2016]]

Thank you.

Comment 7

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

After living with this for quite some time, my rage hath overfloweth.

> * when you'll go in the thread for one of the user, do you want to see the group sms that you sent ?

No, that would be unexpected. Searching all threads for that user should show the group thread though.

>* when one of the recipients answers you, do you want that the answer is in the group sms thread, or in the individual recipient thread ?

If it's a reply to any message in the group thread, it should be in the group thread.

Comment 8

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

From what I think, there are basically 2 cases when you send a message to several people:

case 1: you want them logically grouped (ex: you want to organize a theater evening)
case 2: you don't want them logically grouped (ex: you want to send that you just got a new child to all your friends)

The current behavior is:
* if you send a SMS to several people, it's case 2.
* if you send a MMS to several people, it's case 1 (and it's quite broken).

I think we need to uncouple this. As soon as there are several recipients, we want the user to be able to chose between these cases.


Now technically it's not possible to send a SMS to several people and keep it logically grouped, so we'll need to force a MMS for case 1. That's likely OK but this can be more expensive.

And if you want to send a MMS to several people but have it ungrouped, you'll need to send the same MMS several times, that's more expensive too.

That's why the current behavior are like this: they're the likely less expensive behaviors (but this could be untrue when you send SMS to a lot of recipients).

I'm adding this bug as blocking the main "groupmms" bug.

Comment 9

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Mass closing of Gaia::SMS bugs. End of an era :(

Comment 10

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Mass closing of Gaia::SMS bugs. End of an era :(