MSC4171: Service members #4171
MSC4171: Service members #4171
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Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <[email protected]>
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Apparently there was already a doc for this, probably should've looked for that before writing it myself 🙈 https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/blob/develop/spec/functional_members.md
| solve the issue eventually, but implementing those will likely take quite a | ||
| while due to the complexity of the system. This proposal is an intermediate | ||
| solution for bots before canonical DMs are fully implemented. | ||
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Of note is that this has been in use in Element since July 2021, so it's fairly well battle tested at this point.
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| Clients that don't support this MSC would still include the service members in | ||
| the room name calculation. It may be possible to work around this by excluding | ||
| service members from `m.heroes` on the server side, but that may also cause |
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I wonder if the MSC should explicitly direct servers to filter out these members from the m.heros selection. As the spec says:
m.heros-> The users which can be used to generate a room name if the room does not have one. Required if the room’s m.room.name or m.room.canonical_alias state events are unset or empty..
So reasonable to say this is equivalent to the client doing it, and we should probably not have a disagreement between server and client.
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I guess it would be more technically correct, I'm just not sure if all clients like that. For example, I could imagine clients getting confused and thinking they have the full member list even though a service member was omitted
It also requires implementing more things 🙈
Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <[email protected]>
| service members from `m.heroes` on the server side, but that may also cause | ||
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| ## Alternatives |
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