Publish-subscribe and idleness
It appears that our work on the publish-subscribe specification is nearing completion. As we speak we are ironing out the last wrinkles of a pretty large specification, where most changes come in because of better understanding of the issues. After finishing of this work, we can resume discussing PEP and the extended presence proposals.
Relately, jadestorm has ideas on conveying idle-time. He suggests writing a JEP to publish this information via publish-subscribe, but I'd like to point out two existing JEPs that might do the trick.
First off is Time Periods.
It allows for annotating a stanza with information about the beginning
and/or end of some state, event or activity. This could be used to
accompany an automatic away with time the idling started. Getting the
current idle-time from that is easy then. Also, it can be used in
combination with User Activity.
One of the activities
is
inactive.