30 Jun
2025
30 Jun
'25
12:26 p.m.
Hi Timothée, thanks for working on this. Comments inline.
On 6/30/25 4:16 AM, Timothée Jaussoin wrote:
A few weeks ago I made an important pull request to
complete, fix and
update the XEP-0317: Hats.
https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/1437
This PR included the following changes:
* Specify a urn:xmpp:hats:commands:dcreate command to add a hat to the
available list
* Specify a urn:xmpp:hats:commands:ddestroy command to destroy a hat
from the list
* Clarify how the service should broadcast the hat changes when it is
edited, assigned, removed or destroyed
* Specify a way for an entity to get the complete list of hats using a
hash in disco#info
* Add a hue optional parameter allowing entities to assign a color to
the hat that can be displayed properly in any conditions on the
client (as explained in XEP-0392: Consistent Color Generation)
* Standardize all the form fields using XEP-0068
* Fix some typos
Overall these changes seem reasonable.
I have a few questions:
How are clients supposed to process the hash of supported hats, given
that the hash-calculation method is implementation-specific? It seems
that the client needs to cache the hash, then retrieve the list of hats
if the hashes don't match. Is that all?
When a hat is destroyed, are participants who had that hat informed?
I tried to reach the authors without success so
I'm trying again using
the mailing list.
This puzzles me. If you ever need to ping me on GitHub, just flag
@stpeter - and I would think that Matthew is very easy to find in
chatrooms etc.
I'd really like to move it forward then we can
start implementing them
in our clients and servers.
Sounds great.
For historical purposes, you might find it interesting that my original
motivation for defining Hats was to support in XMPP some of the features
that existed in WebEx (I worked on the WebEx team at that time). It's
interesting to me that such features are still useful. :-)
Peter