[Standards] Re: Council (and what it does, and what it should do)

4 Jun 2024

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   3. We should
more actively discourage release of functionality based on
 ProtoXEP and Experimental XEPs in production (except hidden behind feature
 flags or options clearly marked as experimental). 
And that's how you end up with Pidgin not having MAM or the like for years.
Because they indeed refuse to implement Experimental specs.

In other words. You can discourage all you want, that won't stop anybody 
from
implementing what they need. And I'd rather have people take a half-baked spec
in Experimental and try to improve on it and report back. They may release it
however they want. 
The key this is not to refuse to implement experimental XEPs (indeed I would 
hope for at least one implemenation before it reaches experimental!) but 
rather to not refuse to make breaking changes to experimental XEPs based on 
the fact that people are using it. Implementors should be aware this is 
experimental and may change and be flexible to support multiple versions of 
it over time, etc.

2024

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[Standards] Re: Council (and what it does, and what it should do)