10 Nov
2025
10 Nov
'25
5:19 p.m.
Unfortunately, this now means that normal 1:1 chats
(that are synchronized
as roster items) lag behind.
I'm volunteering to write a XEP adding an <extensions/> element alongside the
<group/> element to allow arbitrary extensions for roster items. This would
bring 1:1 roster items on-par with bookmarks2 and immediately allow XEP-0492
and XEP-0469 to be applied to roster items as well.
While I have always been team "1:1 items in bookmarks2 is fine" this seems
like a very clean solution here. I don't know that we need an <extensions/>
element per se but a XEP to specify that custom children of roster items
should be preserved would solve the "yet another roster in pep" issue we
seem to keep having.