[Standards] Re: New XEP proposal: Spaces

Hi Nicolas, I think having an option for Spaces makes sense. I’ll provide just some light feedback. Take this with a huge handful of salt, as I’m fairly new to this list. As both an end-user and moderator/admin, I’d like to be able to organise chats both: 1) as a moderator of e.g. a hackerspace/LUG, which I think your proposal covers well; and 2) as an end-user, group (or tag) chats (or even spacer) to have them organised by myself on how I see fit – e.g. all “fun” chats in one group/ space, all “Slovenian orgs” in another, etc. I can already do something like what 2) describes in Gajim, but I would like to keep this organisation throughout all the clients that I use. It may be 2) is outside the scope of Spaces though, in which case, I hope some other XEP covers that. Another use case that I’ve ran into before (on Matrix this time) is that sometimes a Space moderator would like to include rooms from other servers. A real-life use case would be that several rooms already exist on different servers, and now they would like to organise into a common Space. This is what happened to us when we set up a Space on Matrix for several Slovenian FOSS groups, and some were hosted on different instances.a At a quick glance it seems your proposal implies the Rooms need to be on the same server as the Space. I wonder if that could be loosened up. cheers, Matija -- gsm: tel:+386.41.849.552 www: https://matija.suklje.name xmpp: hook(a)campfire.wheremymonkeyis.at matrix: @silverhook:matrix.org