Hi, On Tue, 2026-03-31 at 11:59 +0100, Kevin Smith wrote:
I think Matthew’s change is doing this the right way for Stable - Stable allows changes to the XEP as long as they’re backwards/forwards compatible, which AFAICS Matthew’s proposal is.
I don't disagree that it is formally correct and allowed to have this change in a Stable XEP, but I believe the feature in of itself is more of Experimental quality, meaning we might want to do changes to it that are not backwards-compatible. If we introduce it into a Stable XEP, we can't do that. I also fail to see the benefit of adding it to the existing XEP over creating a new one. After all, we intentionally have multiple XEPs and not one single specification with a lot of optional parts. Denoting the status of features within our specification set is one of the benefits we earn from doing so. Let's make good use of it. Marvin