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
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