at the moment with the shared groups feature it is possible to show a group to members’’ rosters of other groups.
What I need is the same feature for users instead of other groups: Show a group to this user(s): user1
This makes sense in our environment where the leader of a department has some teams (which he is not part of) with a group for every team. Example:
leader of it department = user-itleader
team linux = group-linux
team windows = group-windows
team unix = group-unix
leader2
team4 = group4
team5 = group5
The leader should get the groups’’ members on his roster but the groups’’ members should not get the leader on their roster (because he is not member of a group).
interesting. Though… it’'s not quite logical. Leader will have uou in his roster and you not. So only him can start chating with you? But what then stops you from adding him to your roster manually?.. Only thinking aloud
we’'re using XMPP not only for chatting, instead our main topic is presences and status-messages.
So the leader can see where his workers are and what they are doing but they don’'t need to know where he is and what he is doing.
If a worker want’‘s to add him sure he can request his authorisation but it’'s up to the leader if he accepts this request (no way to do this if both are in a group!).
It’‘s a cool idea. Unfortunately, a lot of other stuff is on the to-do list at the moment. So, we’'d probably be able to start thinking about this for the 2.3 release. Of course, a community member could definitely work on this too to get it done faster.