"NickName has quit: Input/output error" do not get mapped to leave events

[pksadiq]

Keeping the offline IRC user in the user list results in lots of duplicates. Say for example My IRC nick is listed as pksadiq, pksadiq_, pksadiq__ and so on (when seen in RIOT web client).

So instead of keeping all those (duplicate) nicks. It would be nice if the nick is removed from the list once the user is quit, which means that all the listed IRC users is online (may be with away status).

Riot client gives tab completion for users that are offline too (as matrix users can set their status to offline). This would also be a help there.

Thanks

[t3chguy]

As I told you in #riot:matrix.org
this is the intended behaviour when the option to Sync Membership lists is enabled in the bridge, and it is for most of the bridges

This is about the GimpNET GIMPNet bridge.

[Mikaela]

I didn't understand, do you mean that the issue is only at GIMPNet and the membership syncing isn't enabled there? Or do you mean that nick changes create ghost users which would make this a duplicate of #71 ?

I am not using the GIMPNet bridge.

(EDIT: fixed spelling of GIMPNet.)

[t3chguy]

from the description I got in #riot:matrix.org I'm led to believe the GimpNET GIMPNet bridge is not syncing parts/quits (membership list syncing)

[Mikaela]

Thanks, I adjusted the title (and was notified of incorrect spelling of GIMPNet).

[t3chguy]

thanks for the pointer, I wrote it wrong twice :L

[kegsay]

This bridge already has membership syncing enabled. Based on the nicks given in this issue, I believe this is a dupe of #71. Closing.

[pksadiq]

I tried to understand what would be causing this. And now I doubt if it is a IRC client issue. Most of the gnome users use Polari as IRC client.

So here is what I did:

1. I used Emacs erc client (with nick 'sadiqA') and joined #gnome-hackers in GIMPNet
2. Also used Polari (with nick 'sadiqB') and joined #gnome-hackers
3. Then I quit from both the clients.

And the result is: user 'sadiqA' is marked as quit. But no information about 'sadiqB'. That is the nick sadiqB is still considered as connected (in RIOT web client)

Further investigation shows that, once the nick 'sadiqB' is quit from Polari, I get no nick completion for 'sadiqB' in GNU Emacs erc client. But I get nick completion in RIOT web.

And this was happening in Freenode network too. This was why I filed the bug not specific to GIMPNet. Hope I have tracked down the issue.

Even though it is a Polari IRC client issue, as Emacs erc client can understand that the user have quit, I believe that Matrix can too.

Do I need to file a new bug for this?

[kegsay]

Oh, that's interesting in a horrifying kind of way. How exactly are Polari clients leaving channels? The bridge listens for QUIT and PART and will map that to a leave event.

[pksadiq]

This is the message I get in Emacs when the Polari user quits:

*** sadiqB ([email protected]) has quit: Input/output error [18:34]

[afranke]

Most of the gnome users use Polari as IRC client.

[citation needed] as I know many people on GIMPNet that use anything but Polari, and when I ask around for someone using it to do some tests I get crickets. Also Polari is known to have issues (#382) on its own.

[kegsay]

has quit: Input/output error

I wonder if node-irc is representing this as an ERROR or something instead? Would need to investigate this with trace logging on the bridge.

[pksadiq]

[citation needed]

That was an exaggeration. But the user base can be quite large. We don't need to have a fight on this. Do we? 😆