On 7/13/15 5:12 PM, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:41:28PM +0200, Yann Leboulanger wrote:
But the way things are done is a bit strange. The feature was available and
working.
Removing a few lines in a XEP makes features no more available and another
depending XEP no more implementable and we now need to create another XEP to
workaround that.
XEP-0234 is an Experimental XEP, and as such was likely to get some
breaking changes before its promotion to the next state. To quote
XEP-0001, §9.1, “Note: An Experimental specification is a work in
progress and may undergo significant modification before advancing to a
status of Draft.”
I do welcome that change, as it makes the XEP a lot simpler to
implement fully, and putting the removed features in some other XEP
doesn’t remove any usability from the clients which do implement it.
Actually I think the changes could have been handled much better in this
instance, i.e., via more list discussion. That's my fault.
I agree about the ultimate goal of simplicity, but that doesn't excuse
the lack of communication.
Peter
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