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Daniel Gultsch for Council 2019 (view source)
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I've previously served on Council for two terms in the years 2017 and 2018. | I've previously served on Council for two terms in the years 2017 and 2018. | ||
A majority of the votes in day-to-day council operation are going to be two things: Accepting XEPs as ''experimental'' and moving XEPs from ''experimental'' to ''draft''. The criteria in XEP-0001 leave room for interpretation and different people have interpreted them differently over the times. So if you are going to put me into Council you should know how I’m (generally) going to vote on these | A majority of the votes in day-to-day council operation are going to be two things: Accepting XEPs as ''experimental'' and moving XEPs from ''experimental'' to ''draft''. The criteria in XEP-0001 leave room for interpretation and different people have interpreted them differently over the times. So if you are going to put me into Council you should know how I’m (generally) going to vote on these issues. | ||
=== Accepting a XEP as Experimental === | === Accepting a XEP as Experimental === | ||
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There is a chance that one or even all of the XEPs I used as examples above are not the most beautiful things the XMPP has ever come up with. But that doesn’t change the fact that these XEPs are different to the average lower quality experimental stage XEPs. The life cycle state of those XEP has to reflect that. | There is a chance that one or even all of the XEPs I used as examples above are not the most beautiful things the XMPP has ever come up with. But that doesn’t change the fact that these XEPs are different to the average lower quality experimental stage XEPs. The life cycle state of those XEP has to reflect that. | ||
If we promote those widely used but arguably not 100% perfect XEPs to ''draft'' now and come up with a better solution later we can still ''obsolete'' them. | |||
It is irritating that our Compliance Suits which are basically lists of XEPs to implement for a good & modern IM experience point to XEPs that then say »Please don’t implement me in production«. | It is irritating that our Compliance Suits which are basically lists of XEPs to implement for a good & modern IM experience point to XEPs that then say »Please don’t implement me in production«. | ||