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pagination was a terrible name

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Matthew Hodgson 2014-08-13 17:14:42 +01:00
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Terms
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Backfilling:
The process of synchronising historic state from one home server to another,
to backfill the event storage so that scrollback can be presented to the
client(s). (Formerly, and confusingly, called 'pagination')
Context:
A single human-level entity of interest (currently, a chat room)
@ -28,11 +33,6 @@ Event:
[[NOTE(paul): The current server-server implementation calls these simply
"messages" but the term is too ambiguous here; I've called them Events]]
Pagination:
The process of synchronising historic state from one home server to another,
to backfill the event storage so that scrollback can be presented to the
client(s).
PDU (Persistent Data Unit):
A message that relates to a single context, irrespective of the server that
is communicating it. PDUs either encode a single Event, or a single State