On 13 Feb 2018, at 17:28, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13 February 2018 at 17:20, Evgeny Khramtsov <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:04:36 +0000 >> Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 4) Deprecate XEP-0013 Flexible Offline Message Retrieval >>> >>> https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0013.html >> >> Just my 3 cents: this XEP is, from what I know, the only way to disable >> offline messages on a client, so we need a similar mechanism if the XEP >> is going to be deprecated. > > Yes, good point. > > On a more general note, the process around deprecation is pretty weak > - it might be useful to formally gather feedback about deprecating a > spec in the same way we gather it for advancement. > > Currently, anyone can ask the Council to vote, and the Council can > simply do so. That's not really very helpful, and in practise we do > try to solicit opinion from across the community. > > As such, I'm thinking of writing something for XEP-0001 that imposes a > last-call-like period for comments - Intent To Deprecate/Obsolete > perhaps - and imposing that on ourselves.
It’s not immediately clear to me that this is truly needed. The process as-is seems sufficiently tight (‘Council votes’) that it’s not causing issues right now, and I’m not sure that adding a mandatory almost-LC would address possible future problems (although I think Council getting a feeling of the land before voting is sensible). /K _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
