On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 11:04, Kim Alvefur <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:37:37AM +0100, Dave Cridland wrote: > >On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 16:46, Matthew Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 15:24, Tedd Sterr <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> 4. The original version (XEP-0242/0243) had two simple categories, Core > >>> and Advanced, and that was all; later versions just continued with > that. > >>> The IM Suite, especially, is becoming quite top-heavy, so adding a > middle > >>> level would be good - but what to call it? Instead of names, how about > >>> simply Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 - right now that would map Core to > >>> Level 1 and Advanced to Level 3, then a subset of Level 3 could make up > >>> Level 2. Note that not all Suites require 3 levels (or even 2 in the > case > >>> of Web). [This also fits nicely with a compliance badge design idea I > have.] > >>> > >> > >> I agree with everything you said, but I'm especially in favour of fixing > >> this one. Part of the goal of these things is to help summarize XMPP > >> compliance of a piece of software to people who aren't intimate with > XMPP. > >> There is no planet on which describing a piece of software as "Core > Core" > >> makes sense. > >> > >> I'd be in favour of either switching to "Basic"/"Advanced" (I think > >> "Basic" was frowned upon originally, which is why it wasn't used), or to > >> numbered levels as you propose. > >> > > > >We originally went for "Core" and "Advanced" with the intent that while > >"Advanced" clearly sounds pretty damn cool, people would be happy to put a > >marketing sticker type thing on their product with "Core" on it. > > > >This was explicitly up against "Basic", which we didn't think was the kind > >of thing people would want to brag about. > > > >If we were to change things, I think I'd avoid "Basic" still, for the same > >reasons. > > Perhaps "Foundation" is a cool enough word to replace the "Core" > category, solving the "Core Core" thing by having "Core Foundation", > "Advanced Foundation", "Core IM", "Advanced IM" etc? > > That seems a simple fix, yes.
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