The problem here is that XEPs usually don't move up the ranks as it is intended by XEP-0001. We have countless - very essential - stuck in very low ranks like experimental and draft. This leads to developers implementing (and deploying to large user bases) experimental and draft XEPs (which they are not really supposed to) which in turn leads the XSF enforce higher standards for experimental XEPs.
The deduplication Sam mentions for example is only supposed to happen when something moves to draft. So I think we got into that situation somewhat by accident and/or by our disability to advance XEPs at a reasonable pace. The fact that standards development is being spread out over years also leads to the interesting effect that the original author might no longer be interested/involved which will further delay the development because nobody feels responsible for that particular XEP. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
