[JDEV] Jabber Client Compliance

[Sebastian Vollnhals]

i think, the best way to handle this, is, to interprete everything as
online, that is not specified. 

Am Mit, 2003-08-06 um 20.15 schrieb Julian Missig:

> Actually, looking at the XMPP spec, <show>online</show> isn't even 
> valid. Ok. <show>normal</show> wasn't even used in Jabber prior to 
> XMPP, so clients shouldn't start using that now.
> 
> Julian
> 
> On Wednesday, Aug 6, 2003, at 14:10 US/Eastern, Julian Missig wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting really sick of looking at my roster and seeing things like 
> > <presence from="some at jid" 
> > to="julian at jabber.org"><show>normal</show></presence>
> >
> > <show>normal</show> is not compliant with Jabber or XMPP--"normal" is 
> > not a valid type. It's "online"--it always has been "online".
> >
> > I know that Jabber Compliance Testing is one of those things that 
> > people keep talking about doing and saying we will do someday, etc, 
> > etc., but I'd like to propose that we start doing this stuff *now*.
> >
> > I propose that I set up a "Jabber Client Compliance" project on 
> > jabberstudio.org. I'll set up a Component for each client people 
> > report protocol compliance issues with. "Bugs" would be a list of 
> > *errors* in protocol compliance. "Feature requests" would be a list of 
> > areas in which clients are completely lacking protocol support that 
> > they should have. This requires very little work on my part, and 
> > little work on the part of people who find protocol compliance errors. 
> > We then have an easy system to add comments, etc, etc. All you have to 
> > do is point the client author at the bug. If you find a protocol error 
> > in the client, you can report it. When it's fixed, it can be marked 
> > completed. The Jabber community will then have a running list of 
> > clients which are not compliant.
> >
> > What do people think? Good idea? Or should I wait for people to build 
> > up a real system?
> >
> > Julian
> >
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