How to become an author of xep-0371? Seems like the original author doesn't care about the future of the xep.
Alex
Reminder for those who have not reapplied yet:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Membership_Applications_Q2_2020
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Holger
https://xmpp.org/community/membership.html#application talks about "the first two weeks of January, April, July, and October", has this changed or are things just delayed (this time)?
Alex
looks like we need to update the webpage. dates have slipped many years ago
Holger
Ah :-)
jonas’
rion, ask council :)
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MattJ
Sorry, forgot I can't make the meeting today
pep.
:)
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pep.
!
pep.
It's time
pep.
ralphm, Guus, Seve
Guus
o/
Guus
uhoh
pep.
hmm.
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pep.
I don't really want to skip this one
Seve
Hey
pep.
woo
pep.
Let's start and hope it'll summon ralphm
pep.
1. Agenda
pep.
- Add emus to commteam
pep.
I also have an item to add re ISOC foundation
pep.
Anything else?
Guus
what's the status on that adopt-a-char issue?
Guus
are we still blocked on figuring out how to vote?
Guus
if so, I'd like to see if we can get that oving.
Guus
*moving
Seve
I haven't heard any news on this, personally.
pep.
Last time I checked that was up to Flow. I think he meant to have a look at updating memberbot
Seve
(No items from me)
Guus
(to be added to agenda instead of disccussed right now)
pep.
right
pep.
2. Add emus to commteam
Seve
He has been taking care of the newsletter, I think it would help the process. I'm +1
pep.
It was mentioned this week in their channel. emus has been helping for some time now with the newsletter
pep.
Seve, let's wait for the motion :p
Guus
Who's actually the team lead for comm?
Guus
nyco?
pep.
I'm not entirely sure, but the question was indirectly raised by JC
Seve
Guus, the commteam is a bit "afk" lately (I'm included there)
pep.
emus asking for people to publish things on social media
Guus
https://xmpp.org/about/xsf/comm-team.html
Ge0rG
Wasn't there an attempt to hire a social-media contractor?
pep.
And JC wondering if he should give him access (hence asking team membership)
pep.
Ge0rG, it's in the works yes
pep.
I'll update on that in commitments
Guus
In any case, I'm happy to have emus added.
Guus
is JC asking for him to be added, or is he asking himself? 🙂
pep.
emus is asking, from my PoV JC just prompted the discussion
Guusmotions that Edward 'emus' Maurer is to be added to the Commteam workteam.
pep.
+1
Seve
+1
Guus
+
Guus
shees
Guus
+1
Guus
sorry 🙂
pep.
Ok. 3 +1s ! emus congrats
Guus
Thanks for stepping up, emus !
Seve
emus, woo :)
nyco
...
pep.
nyco, ?
Guus
Does commteam have access to the site?
Guus
as in, first task: add yourself to the website in the new role? 🙂
Guus
(for which we probably need iteam to add him in the correct github team?)
Guus
MattJ, in case you read back notifications, can you facilitate that?
pep.
As a note, I'd like us to figure out how to have teams handle that themselves. I'm curious why we need board here
nyco
Wat
nyco
Who soeaks where?
pep.
nyco, I'm curious if you have any comment, I'd like to hear them
nyco
Ping
Guus
pep. probably mandated in the bylaws. We can go through them out-of-band if you want.
nyco
hi
Guus
for now, let's move on 🙂
pep.
3. ISOC Foundation grant
nyco
soryr to interrupt, sometimes I receive some notifications from I don't know where nor I don't know who, but no always
The isoc foundation is offering a grant that non-profits can apply to in order to help with the current situation (covid)
pep.
The application period is until the 17th though, so pretty quick. I personally don't have many ideas but if anybody is interested in suggesting something I'd like board to consider it before the deadline
Guus
We briefly discussed this yesterday (day before yesterday maybe?). I do like attracting a grant like this, but a) it's short notice, and b) I'm unsure if we'd qualify for this particular one.
Guus
If someone has a good idea to move this forward, I'm all ears though.
pep.
I'm also unsure, but if anybody is willing to take up on the challenge I think we should hear it yeah
Guus
The ISOC offered grand discussion did trigger an idea with me. Should the XSF aim to have more of a team that chases down grants like these, and have proposal drafts available to answer? We might even want to consider hiring people to do this - basically have them pay for themselves?
Guus
grand/grant
Guus
Not sure exactly what this should look like, but it might be worth entertaining the thought.
pep.
hmm, why not. I'm open for discussion
Guus
let's ponder, and revisits in a next meeting?
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pep.
In the meantime I'll send an email regarding this specific grant
pep.
to members@
Guus
ok, tx
pep.
That does imply board is willing to give their approval before the 17th though, right
Seve
For this specific case though, I'm out of ideas. I hardly see how could we present something for that grant, but it will be great to hear any ideas from that mail
Guus
pep. I don't think that that's implied.
Guus
it's implied that board will at least see what comes out of it 🙂
pep.
I mean, discuss it, not approve it
Guus
right
Seve
Of course
pep.
Okay
pep.
4. Adopt a character
pep.
As mentioned above I don't think there is much progress since last time, but that's not up to me
Guus
I'd just like to know where we are on this, and, if board needs to do something to move this along?
Guus
flow ?
pep.
I'm happy to leave this with flow for the time being
Seve
We can contact him out of this meeting and come back with an update. Then decide.
Guus
sure
pep.
Though an update would be nice
pep.
5. Commitments
pep.
Regarding the marketing person, MattJ and I have had a chat with her, we've tried to state what we'd be expecting of a marketing/comms person and it seems she had a bit more clue compared to when she joined the meeting :)
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Guus
where does that leave the effort?
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pep.
She said she'd send us a sketch of what she thinks we can do, alongside with her rates
pep.
(is that the word?)
Sevelistens
Guus
that's _a_ word - unsure which one you're talking about 🙂
pep.
So I'm waiting on this at the moment
pep.
"rates", money things
Guus
yeah, fair enough. I usually use the singular 'rate' - but none of us are native speakers so we're forgiven 🙂
Seve
:D
Guus
Anyway, good news that we've engaged
pep.
That's it from me.
Seve
Looking forward for the sketch
pep.
6. AOB?
Seve
None here
Guus
none here
jonas’
none here
pep.
:)
pep.
Close then!
pep.
I'll send minutes later
Guus
Next week is ascension day
Guus
is that reason to postpone a meeting?
Guus
or shall we simply see who turns up?
pep.
Not for me
Seve
Wohoo, thank you pep.
Guus
we might make a family day out of it, unsure yet.
Guus
I'm happy to just see who turns up
Seve
Me too
Guus
(at the meeting, not the family day)
pep.
wofs
Seve
Oh..
pep.
:D
pep.
wfs*
pep.
wfm.
pep.
hard to type on a keyboard
Guus
ok +1w then
pep.
Thanks all
Guus
thanks!
Seve
🙌
flow
re the adopt-a-character and members opinion poll: I am (more or less) blocked on https://github.com/andrewcmyers/civs/issues/33
flow
if CIVS would offer an option to generate N vote URLs then we could let every member draw exactly one URL from membersbot
flow
(of course this needs adjustment to membersbot, but this should be trivial)
flow
so I guess +1 the issue pls, and maybe we have an perl hacker amoungst us who wants to add that feature to CIVS
Guus
Ok. If, in the interest of time, we want to move without using CIVS, I'd be fine with that.
Guus
If we end up postponing this indefinitely only to be able to test-drive CIVS, that kind of defeats the purpose
Guus
Not that I'm in a hurry
flow
Guus, well if there is a tool that fits the(/my) requirements I would happily use it
flow
+ I really like to use it as trial run for condorcet voting and allow members a first impression of it
Guus
I think your requirements are higher than the requirements 🙂
Guus
sure, I'm not opposing that
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Guus
Just want to make sure you don't feel obliged to chase down a dependency on our account.
flow
I kinda could go with a system that does no condorcet voting, but I could not find a sensible one
emus
Goodday guys 👋
Happy to join the team.
Sorry, I missed the meeting 😫
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pep.
fwiw I'm not against testing Condorcet for this "non-essential" task
pep.
(I also don't care really much about the character personally, sorry but not sorry)
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flow
pep., no need to apologize, you are entitled to your own opinion
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(in this case)
flow
;)
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pep.
nyco, btw, still happy to hear your comments if you have any, here or in private
nyco
About ?
pep.
Your messages above happened while we were talking about emus
pep.
Since you're also commteam I thought it might have been related
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MattJ
emus, what's your Github username?
MattJ
(and congrats :) )
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emus
MattJ: Thanks, just check the recent drafts for the XMPP Newsletter, Im was the creator, echolon
wait
From "connection refused" I would guess that it either failed to look up the SRV records and tried to connect to the wrong port, or that there's a local firewall that blocks connections to the port xmpp.org uses.
xnamed
I think the second possibility
xnamed
thank you Zash
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flow
I always think it would be nice if the textual error message would include the invovled tcp 4-tuple✎
flow
I always think it would be nice if the textual error message would include the involved tcp 4-tuple ✏
Zash
Hmm
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Ge0rG
now is a good time to point out that the text element of stream errors is not supposed to be user-understandable
Zash
I'm not sure we should shove too many details at users, but it can be useful.
flow
my counter argument is always that users who do not understand it could at least give the text to their admin
Zash
When will I find the time and energy to write that Extended S2S Error Info XEP?
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flow
because there is a reason why some UIs just tell the user that "something bad happened, try again later"
Ge0rG
The <error/> element: MAY contain a <text/> child element containing XML character data that describes the error in more detail
flow
so you usually want to display this to the user, with an extra button that leads to a detailed error report
flow
that he/she is not expected ot understand
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Zash
While we have that single <text> element, we could at least try to have the beginning of it easily understandable, and then go into more details.
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flow
I would totally support adding a "dump-user-text" element
flow
but the existing <text/> should probably contain as much as details as possible
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flow
err dumb-user-text
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Ge0rG
for dumb-user-text all you need is a set of strings for all well-known conditions
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Zash
If they're well-known conditions, wouldn't conditions be better?
but yes, why not, we certainly will end up with a textual escape hatch
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Zash
we already have that
flow
great, I like hatches. but not the one from lost
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xnamed
I remember had certificate expired error long ago but this time it's something else
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xnamed
I think good idea to add details
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pep.
> flow> my counter argument is always that users who do not understand it could at least give the text to their admin
I agree. For the 5% that do send things to their admin, it's good when they have more than "it doesn't work"
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Link Mauve
The admin can usually correlate the timestamp with a particular s2s attempt in their debug logs.
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Link Mauve
But +1 for more understandable errors.
pep.
Maybe the admin is not that admin
Link Mauve
It’s a good thing for users who are their own admin too. :)
Ge0rG
Link Mauve: "yesterday I couldn't talk to Jack"
Ge0rG
And then you have 2GB of server logs and they have three Jacks on the roster
xnamed
What if the admin like me doesn't have access to the debug logs?
pep.
Compared to yesterday I got a weird message when talking to Jack: "something something error 1235"
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Zash
I'm still kinda proud of the new certificate related s2s errors in Prosody (trunk)
Link Mauve
xnamed, uh, then you can’t debug.
Ge0rG
I sometimes get screenshots from users, even for errors that were toast messages.
Ge0rG
They manage to make a shot of their mobile screen in the 1 or 2 seconds that the toast is visible
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Ge0rG
Zash: a pity that I can't see them.
Zash
xnamed, with my iteam hat on, I see no trace of any connection to xmpp.org from that server.
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Zash
Ge0rG, not?
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Ge0rG
Zash: I'm not checking certificates
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Ge0rG
But maybe one day I could run through all domains from my users' rosters and s2s ping them to collect certificate validity data and to be able to decide whether to enforce certificates after that.
Zash
I hope we can improve DNS and TCP related errors too
Zash
Currently you get e.g.
> Server-to-server connection failed: unable to resolve service
or
> Server-to-server connection failed: connection refused
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Ge0rG
And some clients are only wide enough to show "Server-to-server connection fa..."
Zash
Maybe someone could improve that as well
Zash
Compressed jargon doesn't feel like the solution, especially not if we want more details in there.