Hi folks, As a heads up, we'll be pushing a new version of the federation code to wavesandbox.com shortly. This new release contains a significant refactor which is more robust in how it handles error conditions and also generates a richer set of error responses, which we hope will make it easier for other wave providers (using FedOne or other implementations). The error handling is using standard XMPP error stanzas, as documented in IETF RFC 3920.
We'll be updating the federation specification to go into more detail. While we expect FedOne-based deployments will continue to operate normally after this new release, other implementations may need to be modified to gracefully respond to the various error responses generated. Please let us know if you see glitches, and we'll keep an eye on things from our side. In addition to the changes to wavesandbox.com, we're working to merge this new XMPP code into FedOne, so that the mercurial repository will match the new wavesandbox.com release. In other news, those who were watching the checkins saw a new agent, probey. This provides an extremely bare-bones HTTP interface to a wave server, allowing you to create, modify, and view waves. It's deliberately limited to the purposes it was written for (automated end-to-end testing and monitoring of wavesandbox.com), but we hope it will be useful for you too, and perhaps even inspire you to look at taking the code and extending it further. Finally, we're thinking about some improvements for the next version for the federation protocol - in particular, bundling of signatures as an optional part of a submit-request, removing the pubsub envelope on post/get signer request/responses and specifying the error messages exchanged by federated wave providers. If you have specific suggestions about how to improve the server-to-server federation protocol, it's a great time to propose them. Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Baxter, [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
