[Bug 31660] Undraft MergeableConference and Splittable

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31660

--- Comment #4 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-11-22 03:28:06 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > If we've resolved that non-telephonic protocols aren't expected to implement
> > MergeableConference, then the Merge() rationale shouldn't talk about XMPP.
[...]
> I wonder whether it's less confusing to just say Merge is only supported if the
> underlying protocol signals the merge in some way.

With my ex-mathematician hat on, this is mixing two orthogonal things:
MergeableConference is (intended) for protocols where you can only merge, not
invite, whereas addition to Channels in Merge() is for protocols where merging
is signalled.

However, with my software engineer hat on, I suspect that those two orthogonal
things will always coincide in practice - protocols which "look like telephony"
will require merging *and* signal merges, and protocols which don't "look like
telephony" will do neither. So, yeah, I'd be fine with conflating those.

Mikhail, any thoughts on comment #2 and subsequent comments? (In particular,
how would SIP behave?)

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