I have a meta-level question: of what use are the compliance suites and are the benefits worth the costs?
Peter On 1/19/18 10:31 AM, Sam Whited wrote: > Hi all, > > As you might know I've been trying to revive the compliance suites that the > XSF last published (in draft/final form) in 2012. > The compliance suites are lists of features and XEPs that serve three > purposes: > > - To offer client/server authors a minimal set of XEPs that should be > implemented to ensure a good user experience > - To push the state-of-the-art forward and expand adoption of features that > improve the user experience by encouraging authors to seek "compliance" > - To improve interoperability between clients and servers on the network > > Naturally, these goals are sometimes in conflict and each XEP or feature in > the suites needs to be considered carefully against all three goals. > The latest (unaccepted) compliance suites can be found here, for reference: > https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0387.html > > I'm looking fora new document shepherd to take over curating and publishing > the compliance suites each year. The compliance suites are a bit different > from other XEPs, so anyone wanting to take them over needs to be willing to > work with the council to get them published in a reasonable timeframe (I've > historically been very bad at this; start publishing early), and needs to > understand that it's better to publish on time than to make them perfect (it > looks bad if we're in 2018 and the "current" draft compliance suites are from > 2012). Anyone wanting to take over should also of course follow XSF business > and the XMPP community and generally keep an eye on new XEPs and adoption of > existing XEPs. > > If that sounds like you, please reach out and I'd be happy to help you get > started picking back up where I left off. > > Thanks, > Sam > _______________________________________________ > Standards mailing list > Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ >
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