If someone creates a community for their XMPP project, that should obviously be allowed. But what about tangentially related technologies or XMPP-focused general discussion communities? Eg. would an IETF KITTEN Working Group community be disallowed because it’s not specific to XMPP (not that they’re likely to create a group, I was just trying to think of something tangentially related)? What about a group to discuss XMPP Security or XMPP UX that’s not specifically tied to a project or group? It may be worth us developing a policy on this early on to stop conflicts before they arise and to stop having to grandfather in to many groups if we decide later that they’re out of scope.

  • SamOPM
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    22 years ago

    Also: should we require applications to create a new community? If spam becomes a problem this is an option, but someone else suggested it might be worth while just to have a higher quality list of communities. We should decide how we’re going to handle this.

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    • SamOPM
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      12 years ago

      Yah, I tend to agree that general purpose rooms are good; I’ll be curious if anyone has reasons not to though.

  • SamOPM
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    12 years ago

    Third thing that might be worth thinking about: do we allow “unofficial” communities. Eg. if someone who’s not a Gajim author or maintainer or what not wants to come along and make a /c/gajim, do we allow it? Do we require it to have “Unofficial” or similar in the display name?

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    I’m wondering what to do with other languages? I’d like not to shutdown attempts at creating language-specific communities. Is this something that we want to manage on this instance?

    • SamOPM
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      22 years ago

      Seems okay to me, but I’d bet existing ones are already established and probably other instances will have a wider user base. But I don’t see any reason to forbid it, personally.