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@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ medium-term goal we should encourage the unification of this terminology.
Terms
=====
+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
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