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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2010-03-31 16:17:43 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2010-03-31 16:17:43 +0100
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Update spec to 0.19.2
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@@ -355,7 +355,28 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.</
access="read" tp:name-for-bindings="Initiator_Handle">
<tp:added version="0.17.13">(as stable API)</tp:added>
<tp:docstring xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <p>The contact who initiated the channel. For channels requested by the
+ <p>The contact who initiated the channel; for instance, the contact
+ who invited the local user to a chatroom, or the contact who
+ initiated a call.</p>
+
+ <p>This does <em>not</em> necessarily represent the contact who
+ created the underlying protocol-level construct. For instance, if
+ Rob creates a chatroom, Will joins that chatroom, and Will invites Simon
+ to join it, then Simon will see Will as the InitiatorHandle of the
+ channel representing the chatroom.</p>
+
+ <tp:rationale>
+ <p>The room creator is generally a less useful piece of information
+ than the inviter, is less likely to be available at invitation
+ time (i.e. can't necessarily be an immutable property), and is
+ less likely to be available at all. The creator of a chatroom
+ is not currently available via Telepathy; if added in future, it
+ is likely to be made available as a property on the Chatroom
+ interface (<a
+ href="http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23151">bug 23151</a>).</p>
+ </tp:rationale>
+
+ <p>For channels requested by the
local user, this MUST be the value of
<tp:dbus-ref namespace="org.freedesktop.Telepathy">Connection.SelfHandle</tp:dbus-ref>
at the time the channel was created (i.e. not a channel-specific