On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:59:08PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > I don't know, I think I would understand you better if I had a > > list of specific problems that make this software unsuitable for > > release. > > I currently have a connection to my homeserver on 2 devices, and > pidgin isn't receive any messages, but riot is. I have this problem > every few days. And like I said, it's not clear where the problem > is. It looks I can actually send things when in that state, and > other people receive it, I just don't receive anything back. And > people generally blame purple-matrix for that if I tell I'm using > that.
Ok, interesting. > > > Like I said, if you think that you can support this version for > > > the next 3 years, I have no problem with it. But I wouldn't add > > > it to a stable release yet in it's current state. > > > > I plan to keep using this plugin for the foreseeable time. > > But do you think you'll still use this version, or will you upgrade > the version you're running when there is a new upstream version? Well, I'll upgrade it of course, and if there's any critical fix I'll try to backport it. > > Maybe I'm missing something, what is the scenario that you are > > worried about? > > So some of my worries: > - It crashes for me a few times a week. > - There seem to be various issues that don't make it behave > properly. > - Maybe next year some of those issues have been fixed in > purple-matrix, it's recommended to use it for the desktop, > but then people install the version from Debian stable and > get a crappy version. But how is that scenario better if there's no version at all in Debian stable? > - I don't know if it's still going to be compatible next year. As far as I'm aware the client-server protocol is stable, well documented and doesn't just break from one version to the next. https://matrix.org/docs/spec/ Berto
