XSF Discussion - 2020-09-17


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  100. flow

    pep., if you replace it, then the old/previous feature is also gone, right?

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  102. pep.

    yes

  103. flow

    so i'd just remove all traces of "max" and add a new feature for your proposed "-1"

  104. flow

    related: I do wonder if there should be room for a union type form field, e.g. this field's value is either a int or one of "foo", "bar" or "baz".

  105. flow

    related: I do wonder if there should be room for a union type form field type, e.g. this field's value is either a int or one of "foo", "bar" or "baz".

  106. flow

    as I also don't like overloading integer values with extra semantics (think "error codes"), but I can see that the way of least resistance may be the way forward in this case

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  115. Daniel

    > as I also don't like overloading integer values with extra semantics (think "error codes"), but I can see that the way of least resistance may be the way forward in this case I'm really not a fan of this either. That's why my original proposal didn't. But it seems like the community has spoken

  116. pep.

    yeah I'm also not a fan, but..

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  121. MattJ

    To be clear 'max' is not a blocker for me

  122. flow

    > But it seems like the community has spoken I am not sure if I'd put it that way. Clearly there are two different camps in how this should be done. What we should do now is to see if we can find a compromise

  123. flow

    MattJ, ahh ok, I assumed that pep made the propsoal because this was blocking adoption by prosody

  124. MattJ

    We have had this discussion already in the past year, and I think the conclusion was that we need some new type like 'integer-with-max'

  125. flow

    more like "integer-with-list-of-predifined-strings", but yes

  126. flow

    more like "integer-with-list-of-predefined-strings", but yes

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  128. MattJ

    Predefined where?

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  132. MattJ

    The point is that we need to validate it, so the list of possible strings needs to be known

  133. flow

    hence predefined

  134. MattJ

    So what strings are you thinking?

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  138. flow

    depends on the use case

  139. flow

    the xep where the form field is specified in also declares those

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  141. MattJ

    No thanks

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  143. Zash

    How about 'min' and 'max' as aliases for the xep122(?) min and max limits?

  144. MattJ

    I mean, again not a blocker, but annoying

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  146. MattJ

    Yes, min and max makes sense

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  149. MattJ

    What I would rather not have is an open-ended data type where the possible legal values are dependent on context

  150. Kev

    Zash: I think max is distinct from the integer limit though, no?

  151. Kev

    In that it's asking the server to be essentially unlimited, as much as is allowed.

  152. Kev

    (I don't particularly have a horse in this race, I think pretty much anything is workable here)

  153. MattJ

    The max integer limit is "as much as is allowed"

  154. MattJ

    But what I'm guessing you're saying is that it may change

  155. Holger

    MattJ: It wouldn't really depend on _context_, in that this field variable would always have this data type, no? (We do have XEPs where valid types do depend on context, I do hate _that_ ...)

  156. MattJ

    Holger: what I took the proposal to be is a data type that is essentially an integer or string

  157. MattJ

    Where the strings are chosen by the XEP it is used in

  158. MattJ

    Which is almost useless for validation

  159. pep.

    > MattJ, ahh ok, I assumed that pep made the propsoal because this was blocking adoption by prosody I kinda did?

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  161. pep.

    if it's not blocking then.. great? :)

  162. Holger

    MattJ: We have various form fields and whatnot where an XEP defines a limited set of valid strings already, no? (I.e. enumerations ...)

  163. Holger

    Whatever, in this specific case it's really about integer|'unlimited', not integer|string, right ...

  164. Zash

    And those would use list options

  165. MattJ

    I'll restate the problem: we offload dataform parsing and validation to a library, it currently takes care of ensuring max_items is an integer, and so on. The proposed "max" change means we have to stop declaring this field as an integer and move all validation back into code that uses the library

  166. Holger

    MattJ: Or fix the library ;-)

  167. MattJ

    Obviously that can be done, but using this "max" hack has come up in other contexts since

  168. MattJ

    Holger: fix it to do what?

  169. Holger

    (I have a similar problem but I do see how union types are useful to support.)

  170. MattJ

    "max" is not valid for xs:integer

  171. Holger

    To support validation of complex types.

  172. Ge0rG

    if somebody had told Council back then, we'd probably have approved -1 instead of "max" or "∞"

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  174. Holger

    I just wouldn't have seen declaring the type to be "integer|'unlimited'" (or in other cases "integer|enum('one', 'two', 'three')") as a hack. Quite the opposite, I'd see limiting us to simple types as a hack to work around implementation problems.

  175. pep.

    Not everything goes into integers indeed. and having "max" is certainly more explicit than "-1" for clients or server devs

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  177. MattJ

    Holger: it's based on XEP-0122 so that validation constraints can be communicated to clients

  178. Holger

    Ah!

  179. MattJ

    So all I'm asking is that we use a proper defined type instead

  180. pep.

    So it's a spec limiting an implementation limiting another spec!

  181. flow

    we surely could extend xep122 to support those kind union form field type

  182. Holger

    pep.: Exactly.

  183. flow

    we surely could extend xep122 to support those kinds of union form field types

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  185. MattJ

    I'd be totally happy to get behind that - and I see it being useful in other contexts too

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  188. pep.

    That does mean a lot more work..

  189. MattJ

    I'm also happy with xmpp:integer-with-max :)

  190. MattJ

    Whatever makes most sense to people

  191. pep.

    UsefulPubSubThings when? (hint: never!!)

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  195. pep.

    A well thought design is appealing, but the path leading to that is full of ambushes :p

  196. pep.

    Long and perilous

  197. Zash

    So we should just pile on hacks?

  198. MattJ

    pep.: yes, I know spec work is draining in this way :(

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  201. pep.

    Zash: isn't that what happens in practice most of the time

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  203. Zash

    Giving up and adding more hacks isn't going to help with that

  204. pep.

    I agree, but that needs work and dedication. I'm curious how projects like Movim and Sàt ever managed to make something useful out of pubsub without this tbh, or what I point out in https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2019-October/036503.html

  205. MattJ

    Me too

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  251. pep.

    I may not be entirely available for the board meeting. I'll be in transports in between things (missing a word.)

  252. Ge0rG

    I have two AOBs for Board.

  253. Ge0rG

    Or rather, Council has.

  254. eta

    pep., MattJ: I think movim just gets you to force max-items to something high

  255. eta

    in server config, that is

  256. MattJ

    We're also lacking a config option to ask the server to return an error when reaching the limit, rather than discarding older items

  257. pep.

    eta, yeah and that fails whenever an operator is not aware one of their users is using movim

  258. pep.

    And what MattJ says

  259. pep.

    (which I mentioned in my email last year)

  260. eta

    ah.

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  262. pep.

    Even though for the issue I mentioned just now, that's possibly another issue that goes alongside using servers that correspond to your use-case

  263. pep.

    (how to find them is something I want to tackle but -ENOTIME)

  264. pep.

    Busy adding custom types in XEPs

  265. pep.

    MattJ, something something registry not working.

  266. MattJ

    Yeah, that minor issue :)

  267. pep.

    So I "can't" submit my change just now.

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  271. pep.

    https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0137.html#example-1 oops, unqualified NS "si-profile"?

  272. pep.

    How do I define a datatype in a registrar definition? :/

  273. pep.

    I mean not just saying it exists

  274. pep.

    Taking example on https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0137.xml#registrar.xdata-validate, that includes a definition from the XEP itself, is that enough?

  275. pep.

    In https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0137.xml#usecase.xdata

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  277. MattJ

    Yeah, I guess the new type needs a XEP?

  278. pep.

    I'm not entirely sure this is the correct thing to do though, MattJ. You can apply a range to xs:integer for sure but how to you apply a range to <xs:simpleType><xs:union><xs:simpleType><xs:restriction base='nonNegativeInteger'/></xs:simpleType><xs:simpleType><xs:restriction base='string'><enumeration value='max'/></xs:restriction></xs:simpleType></xs:union></xs:simpletype>

  279. pep.

    What I had in mind at the beginning was to allow servers to send over their own type definition :x

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  281. pep.

    But that's madness

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  283. Ge0rG

    kinda like EXI?

  284. MattJ

    Agreed, madness :)

  285. pep.

    But then how do I solve the <range/> thing.

  286. pep.

    It's also not like it could be applied to a variant of our custom union type because there's no variant

  287. pep.

    And I can't define another derived integer type with custom range because every deployment is different :)

  288. pep.

    In this new XEP/modification to existing XEP I might be able to say "any <range/> thing applies to this integer value" but that's meh

  289. MattJ

    It's meh but I'm not sure I see another solution

  290. pep.

    Fortunately 122 says there can only be one <range/> within <validate/> (in the non-normative schema)

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  292. pep.

    another solution would be to go to the w3c with a revolutionary union type with variants! (not me plz)

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  368. ralphm

    0. Welcome + Agenda

  369. pep.

    half-here

  370. ralphm

    Hi

  371. Seve

    👋

  372. Seve

    MattJ Guus

  373. Guus

    hi

  374. Guus

    sorry

  375. MattJ

    Oh, forgot it was Thursday

  376. MattJ

    o/

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  378. ralphm

    welcome all

  379. ralphm

    I've added an item from last meeting from Ge0rG

  380. ralphm

    And although my name wasn't mentioned thrice, it appeared that dwd had a suggestion for a topic from the Council meeting, too

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  382. ralphm

    Hope either of them is around.

  383. Guus

    I'd really like to receive agendas prior to the meeting, so that we can prepare. We've agreed on that, didn't we?

  384. Ge0rG

    ralphm: the Council asked to create a web page linking to the latest / emphasizing the latest and linking to all Compliance Suite(s)

  385. ralphm

    We did indeed. My apologies

  386. Ge0rG

    ralphm: and the second question from dwd was "what about the badges"

  387. Ge0rG

    (I'm paraphrasing here)

  388. ralphm

    ok

  389. dwd

    For board to consider: the discussion on the compliance suites.

  390. ralphm

    1. Minute taker

  391. ralphm

    I'll write up minutes later.

  392. ralphm

    2. IETF's use of Jabber

  393. ralphm

    This was an AOB item by Ge0rG last meeting.

  394. ralphm

    Ge0rG, what is this about?

  395. Ge0rG

    there was a thread on the IETF (users?) ML about how they are trying Slack as an IM alternative

  396. Ge0rG

    and in that thread, there were some opinions about XMPP that are based on ~15 years old facts

  397. Ge0rG

    so I wrote a nice mail to their xmpp admin, offering help with improving their xmpp infrastructure as well as their recommended clients

  398. ralphm

    Ah, I haven't seen that.

  399. Ge0rG

    the xmpp admin forwarded it to the IETF Executive Director

  400. ralphm

    Thanks for picking that up. Any response, yet?

  401. Ge0rG

    yes, we've had some communication, and the next step would be to set up a converse.js instance, help them a bit with ejabberd config and provide better client recommendations

  402. Ge0rG

    The ones on https://www.ietf.org/jabber/ are also ~15 years old

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  404. Ge0rG

    Do we have something solid we can recommend for the major platforms?

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  406. Ge0rG

    They also asked if we can offer commercial-grade service / hosting for them, but I declined

  407. Ge0rG

    we can hardly offer commercial-grade hosting for our own needs.

  408. ralphm

    You can, 'we' can't.

  409. flow

    but I think we have people who do offer commercial-grade hosting?

  410. MattJ

    The XSF obviously doesn't offer hosting, but I'm sure there are people who would be happy to provide such an offering

  411. Ge0rG

    ralphm: the original mail was signed by me and two other XSF members

  412. ralphm

    I.e. we, the XSF, vs you, people in the community.

  413. Ge0rG

    flow: those people need to stand up and volunteer then.

  414. flow

    wait volunteer?

  415. flow

    I assumed we where talking about commercial paid services

  416. Ge0rG

    flow: no

  417. flow

    ahh so commercial-grade without the commercial

  418. Ge0rG

    None of the people who contributed to the initial mail volunteered any infrastructure yet.

  419. Ge0rG

    flow: commercial-grade as opposed to commercial

  420. MattJ

    I'm assuming they don't just want a random XMPP community member running this

  421. Guus

    Ge0rG I suppose we can call for volunteers on a mailinglist?

  422. Ge0rG

    but maybe that was just a misunderstanding between me and the IETF folks

  423. ralphm

    MattJ, right, that makes sense

  424. MattJ

    There are a number of commercial entities around XMPP who I'm sure would be happy to sponsor a commercial-grade deployment for the IETF

  425. ralphm

    Do IETF also provide XMPP accounts, or just the groupchat service?

  426. flow

    wasn't the initial jabber setup of the ietf done by some random xmpp community member?

  427. Guus

    exactly my thought Matt

  428. ralphm

    I seem to remember we did the latter long, long, long time ago.

  429. Guus

    this all is exciting, and I applaud the people involved to have picked this up - but how is this a board issue?

  430. Ge0rG

    ralphm: they are only hosting the MUC server and intend to keep doing so.

  431. Ge0rG

    ralphm: aka. they don't want to host user accounts themselves

  432. Ge0rG

    but they'd probably be grateful to have a recommended server with IBR and good stability

  433. Ge0rG

    or a small list of recommended servers

  434. ralphm

    Guus: the question might be, besides running muc.xmpp.org, do you also want to run muc.ietf.org, as an XSF effort. This would surely need to pass board.

  435. flow

    Ahh, that MUC-only requirement may lower the bar to provide the service for free

  436. Ge0rG

    I'd offer mine, but it lacks both in stability and in bus factor

  437. Ge0rG

    ralphm: I don't think they want to change hosting for their MUC component.

  438. ralphm

    ok

  439. Ge0rG

    I'm pretty sure we can put up a Holger to review their configuration and to add / fine-tune the modules needed for MAM and all the other fancy stuff, though

  440. ralphm

    Sure

  441. Ge0rG

    Then we also need to make a list of recommended clients

  442. Ge0rG

    And then we need to set up a converse.js instance with a nice fancy web front listing all their MUCs

  443. pep.

    Ge0rG: 'we'? we can hardly get a client list up on our website :)

  444. ralphm

    I'm reluctant to provide a recommendation on behalf of the XSF.

  445. Ge0rG

    Any other volunteers?

  446. ralphm

    But I know there are people in this discussion with opinions, that'd be perfectly fine to be voiced.

  447. ralphm

    Outside of their capacity within the XSF.

  448. Ge0rG

    the last mail from the IETF came on Sept 8th, and I failed to respond so far.

  449. Ge0rG

    ralphm: I don't want to make it political, I want to help in pragmatic and useful ways

  450. ralphm

    Indeed.

  451. Guus

    I do not see an issue with individuals making recommendations, even if those individuals have XSF associations.

  452. ralphm

    I very much like us to help the IETF, don't get me wrong.

  453. Ge0rG

    ralphm: 'us'?

  454. ralphm

    Just that given the recent discussion, it cannot be an XSF recommendation.

  455. Ge0rG

    I'm perfectly fine with signing that recommendation with my name only.

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  457. Ge0rG

    But I still need help preparing it, see above.

  458. MattJ

    I'm happy to recommend some clients

  459. ralphm

    See :-D

  460. Ge0rG

    Also I'm going on vacation in some days and my capacity to prepare something will go from ~0 to ~-10

  461. Ge0rG

    MattJ: yes, ripping your client recommendation list came to my mind

  462. Guus

    10 minutes left. Does this need furhter board action?

  463. MattJ

    The new one in Prosody? That's less of a recommendation list and more a list of clients that came to mind, but yeah

  464. Ge0rG

    MattJ: maybe in terms of a diff to https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/jabber/ ;)

  465. Ge0rG

    Guus: no, that was FYI

  466. ralphm

    Guus: I think can move the remainder of this discussion outside of the meeting.

  467. ralphm

    Thanks for noting this Ge0rG!

  468. Ge0rG

    unless the Board wants to get all political and provide actual help, of course

  469. ralphm

    3. Compliancy Suites

  470. Ge0rG

    Council is preparing a new Compliance Suite for 2021, and thus Dave was so kind to make a public inquiry on standards@ about their usefulness.

  471. Ge0rG

    The feedback was mainly: - we need badges to make CS more useful - the XEP process is horrible, we need just a webpage

  472. Ge0rG

    But a new webpage would require New Council Process as well as New Webteam Process, I've decided to stick to the old process so far.

  473. Ge0rG

    I with my CS author hat, that is.

  474. Guus

    Why do we need processes to get a page added / modified on the website?

  475. Ge0rG

    Nevertheless, it would be Awesome:tm: to have Somebody Else:tm: create a page on our website that would be linked prominently and link to the current CS

  476. ralphm

    I've failed to get in contact with the person who initially offered to do the design of the badges. At this point, I'd have whoever volunteers just create *something*.

  477. Ge0rG

    Guus: up to now the Council has defined what belongs into CS. Of course we can delegate that to the Webteam

  478. ralphm

    As for the website, please collaborate with the comms team.

  479. Ge0rG

    https://op-co.de/tmp/xmpp-compliance-badges-2020/ :D

  480. Guus

    Isn't the website merely a reflection of what's in the most up-to-date CS?

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  482. ralphm

    Ge0rG: hooray!

  483. Ge0rG

    Guus: it would suffice to have a page on the website that explains CS (copy&paste from the CS intro!) and links to the document du jour

  484. Guus

    If we can avoid changing or adding any processes, and just have a page that reflects that... that'd be ... good?

  485. Ge0rG

    Guus: a paragraph, a bold link to current year, a list with links to previous editions

  486. pep.

    > The feedback was mainly: > - we need badges to make CS more useful > - the XEP process is horrible, we need just a webpage Is that really the only feedback? You (council) discarded the part where some said they're not so useful as is?

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  489. Ge0rG

    Guus: and a place in the website where it should be

  490. ralphm

    I'd indeed just create a PR and have someone in comms +1 it

  491. Guus

    all fine by me - but more of a commsteam issue than board?

  492. Ge0rG

    Guus: somebody needs to do it

  493. Guus

    sure, but that's not neccesarily a board member? :_)

  494. Ge0rG

    Guus: I hoped Board can direct some resources at it.

  495. Guus

    I don't think so, as board depends on volunteers.

  496. Guus

    unless you propose hiring someone or somesuch

  497. Seve

    I'm very busy at the moment but I will try to tackle that Ge0rG

  498. Ge0rG

    > I've failed to get in contact with the person who initially offered to do the design does that mean you tried and they didn't respond or that you had no chance to try?

  499. Ge0rG

    Seve: cool, thanks!

  500. Seve

    I'm also in comms so.. ;)))

  501. ralphm

    Ge0rG, I tried and they didn't respond

  502. ralphm

    (several times)

  503. Ge0rG

    ralphm: cool, thanks for that!

  504. Ge0rG

    there was significant bike-shedding of the design a year ago or two, and an alternative design by theTedd.

  505. ralphm

    Thanks, Seve

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  508. Ge0rG

    So I have mixed feelings about just pushing through with mine, as it's clearly not perfect

  509. ralphm

    Ge0rG, let's just have something, and then go from there.

  510. Guus

    +1

  511. Ge0rG

    But OTOH, I could just PR it on shields.io and be done

  512. ralphm

    If somebody then steps up with: "hey, I fixed your fugly graphix, here's the PR", then yay

  513. Guus

    I'm applauding all of your efforts, Ge0rG - unsure if your due dilligence by running it past board adds unneeded delays though.

  514. ralphm

    ok

  515. ralphm

    4. AOB

  516. Seve

    I would like for next meeting to discuss this https://trello.com/c/GHGXcYuq/405-how-should-we-approach-txxmpps-pr

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  519. pep.

    I had a quick look and I don't see the issue. happy to take that to next meeting

  520. Seve

    It has been there for a while already and would like to close the issue

  521. Seve

    (No more AOB here)

  522. ralphm

    Ok

  523. ralphm

    5. Date of Next

  524. ralphm

    +1W

  525. ralphm

    6. Close

  526. ralphm

    Thanks all

  527. Guus

    Thanks!

  528. ralphm bangs gavel

  529. Seve

    Thank you everyone 🙂

  530. pep.

    thanks

  531. Ge0rG

    is it me or is git.gnupg.org down?

  532. Ge0rG

    MattJ: so, do you volunteer to make a useful modern client list?

  533. MattJ

    On the page you linked: s/Pidgin/Gajim/;s/Adium/Beagle IM/

  534. MattJ

    I'll let you make the call for Android :)

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  536. Ge0rG

    yeah, it's obviously s/Yaxim/yaxim/

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  538. MattJ

    Pidgin and Adium are borderline unmaintained right now (I know they have hope to revive Pidgin's XMPP support Soon™, but I'm not holding my breath, and Adium basically has no developers at all)

  539. Ge0rG

    MattJ: I am aware of that, but is Beagle a good modern desktop client?

  540. Ge0rG

    What about Swift.IM and Dino?

  541. Ge0rG

    Monal desktop probably isn't there yet

  542. MattJ

    Dino isn't officially packaged for Windows, and... I think it doesn't support MAM in MUCs yet (?)

  543. Zash

    MattJ: Accurate afaik

  544. Ge0rG

    MattJ: did you test BeagleIM on mac?

  545. MattJ

    and I haven't been following Swift recently, but pretty sure it's even further behind on that kind of thing

  546. MattJ

    No, I haven't

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  549. MattJ

    That would require dusting off my Mac, which I do need to do at some point

  550. Ge0rG

    so there is no reliable recommendation for macOS?

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  552. MattJ

    Beagle is using the same underlying code as Siskin, I don't have a problem with recommending it

  553. Andrzej

    the question is what moden client is?

  554. MattJ

    Not Adium

  555. Andrzej

    Beagle has the same set of features as Siskin and is based on the same library

  556. Ge0rG

    Andrzej: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0423.html would be a good start :D

  557. MattJ

    If it supports MUC, HTTP upload, and MAM, we're pretty good I think

  558. Ge0rG

    MAM and Carbons

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  560. Andrzej

    it has MUC, MAM:2, HTTP File Upload, VoIP (jingle/JMI), Carbons, MIX, Message retraction, last message correction, etc

  561. Zash

    And MAM in MUC?

  562. Andrzej

    it is available since latest release

  563. Ge0rG

    Andrzej: that's great!

  564. Andrzej

    VCardTemp, VCard4, PEP based avatars, stream management, XEP-0184, chat states (partially), user blocking,

  565. Andrzej

    I would say it almost matches CS2020 as it is missing Jingle File Transfer and `/me` command

  566. Ge0rG

    WHAT? NO /me?!?!

  567. Zash

    THE MOST IMPORTANT XEP OF ALL!!!11!!!1

  568. Ge0rG is disappointed

  569. Seve

    Hah

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  572. Zash

    Someone actually told me once that XMPP wasn't acceptable because of a client that didn't do /me

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  574. Andrzej

    I do not fell that I'm missing something due to lack of `/me` but someone would report that as a feature maybe it could be added

  575. Andrzej

    I do not fell that I'm missing something due to lack of `/me` but if someone would report that as a feature maybe it could be added

  576. Ge0rG

    Technically, it's `/me `

  577. Zash

    Weird semantics-shoehorned-into-<body> thing, but it's one of those small details.

  578. pep.

    Zash: may I remind you a sentence of yours this day :p

  579. Zash

    ?

  580. pep.

    “Giving up and adding more hacks isn't going to help with that”

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  584. Zash

    Well-established hack dating back to IRC behavior.

  585. Zash

    If you come up with a way to do this in a more XMPP-ish way, I'm all ears. Or eyes.

  586. Ge0rG

    Zash: technically, the wire-format is not from IRC. The XMPP variation added a hack on top of XMPP

  587. Zash

    message { is-action body "is doing stuff" }

  588. mdosch likes /me

  589. Zash

    Ge0rG: Why I said "behavior", not protocol. :)

  590. mdosch

    > mdosch likes /me But not when someone is quoting it as you don't know anymore who is /me

  591. mdosch

    Woo, conversations changed that.

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  594. Ge0rG

    I wonder if I should steal that

  595. Daniel

    this seems like a bug

  596. mdosch

    Do it!

  597. Daniel

    unless you do it properly of course

  598. Zash

    a featurebug!

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  600. Zash

    Speaking of which, where'd references & co go?

  601. MattJ

    Andrzej, https://github.com/tigase/beagle-im/issues/50 - you're welcome :)

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  603. pep.

    well the good thing about stuffing everything in body is that clients don't need support!

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  608. Ge0rG

    is Siskin in a usable state for end users?

  609. Ge0rG

    I had to give away my iPhone recently

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  613. Andrzej

    I would say "yes", but it depends on what you expect from the app, used server, etc.

  614. MattJ

    I would say "no", but that also applies to most software I use and write every day... :)

  615. Ge0rG

    Andrzej: a client where a technically competent person can set up an account and join a MUC without jumping through burning hoops or running into dead ends (failure without error messages etc)

  616. MattJ

    I haven't tried the latest release yet, but I think all the issues I could find are reported as fixed

  617. Ge0rG

    cool

  618. Andrzej

    MattJ, yes they are fixed

  619. Andrzej

    and some parts of the UI are simpler now

  620. Ge0rG

    is it reasonable to list Dino as a Linux client?

  621. MattJ

    Nice

  622. MattJ

    Ge0rG, I worry about it not supporting MUC MAM

  623. Ge0rG

    MattJ: yaxim doesn't either. MUC history seemed good enough for me

  624. MattJ

    In a MUC-focused deployment, that will be a weird cause of confusion if Dino users only see some of the history

  625. Ge0rG

    Also the interaction between MAM and joining a room is bad.

  626. Ge0rG

    whoever invented that...

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  661. theTedd is currently working on *something* re: badges (we can always fiddle with the design) and compliance suites (current, history, future directions)

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  663. Ge0rG

    theTedd: that's exciting!

  664. theTedd

    also, Ge0rG, I had some suggestions for CS (actually from last time, but I didn't want to interrupt the process) - let me know whenever you're mentally prepared 😉

  665. Ge0rG

    theTedd: I totally loved your badge generator workflow, maybe you can make it work out of DOAP?

  666. Ge0rG

    theTedd: just pile them on https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/980

  667. theTedd

    I have considered that, in addition to just dumping a text list of xeps

  668. Ge0rG

    theTedd: I'm currently mentally not able to do useful discussion, but feel free nevertheless

  669. theTedd

    that's what I presumed; it's more ideas/discussion than PR suitable

  670. Ge0rG

    and re badges, I thought about putting the level and year on the RHS of the badge, something like [Mobile Client: 2020 Core] with colorcoding of advanced>core and 2020>2019>...

  671. Ge0rG

    </bikeshed>

  672. theTedd

    I will be doing colours by year (shades of green through orange and red)

  673. theTedd

    related question: is there anything for a client to actually implement for XEP-0411 (Bookmarks Conversion) ?

  674. Zash

    If it has code to do bookmarks conversion itself, disable that if it sees the feature.

  675. theTedd

    I was wondering whether it makes sense to have it as a requirement in the CS for clients (it currently is for IM Advanced)

  676. Ge0rG

    theTedd: yes, because both legacy bookmark formats are mandatory for Advanced IM Client

  677. Ge0rG

    so if you have a server that does 0411, you'll end up with duplicate bookmarks

  678. theTedd

    right, okay

  679. theTedd

    in other news:this muc kicks me if I join from jabber.org (which may be justified)

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  681. mdosch

    You can't join or you get kicked?

  682. theTedd

    it joins, sync, and is then immediately kicked with "Kicked: jid malformed" (errors 333 and 110)

  683. theTedd

    I'm assuming it's actually a S2S issue

  684. pep.

    your client sending an error to the muc?

  685. mdosch

    But yeah, jabber.org is difficult. My s2s to it is broken for a long time. First we didn't share a cipher, now I can't validate the cert and it relies on dialback which is diabled here.

  686. Zash

    A 199 ping from jabber.org to muc.xmpp.org seems to get there and back just fine

  687. Ge0rG

    theTedd: sounds like one of the nicknames here causes jabber.org to freak out

  688. Ge0rG

    I blame Rixon 👁🗨

  689. Ge0rG

    You receive initial presence, your server dislikes it and bounces the stanza, you get kicked

  690. Zash

    This can be from the Prosody MUC code if your nickname does not satisfy resourceprep in "strict mode"

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  693. Zash

    ... or maybe not

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  695. theTedd

    joining jdev and council worked, so yeah it's probably a nick

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  698. Zash

    Mmm, yeah, looks like Rixon 👁🗨

  699. Zash

    Oh wait, the "strict mode" thing isn't in a release, so never mind.

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  702. eta

    MattJ: lack of MUC MAM is definitely an issue

  703. eta

    Ge0rG: you just don't notice it on yaxim because your phone is nearly always on

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  731. Ge0rG

    eta: that's true. Also I've configured my rooms to keep 500 messages and to return 50 by default

  732. Ge0rG

    and yaxim will poll for history since the last message's timestamp. That's absolutely not prone to race conditions!

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