matrix-org / matrix-org/matrix-spec
Ability to delete rooms.
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Description
A fairly common request is the ability to "delete a room".
In practice, this could mean someone with sufficient power marking with room with a tombstone with metadata requesting all participating servers drop the room from their DB. However, this would vandalise everyone else's copy of the room.
Perhaps a better bet would be to support room garbage collection, such that if everyone on your local server has hit 'leave' and 'forget' on their copy of the room, the room is actually removed from the server.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the issue discussion about deleting rooms, tombstones, and local room garbage collection. Review the comments for a decided approach and its protocol implications; this issue is done only when a concrete, agreed behavior is specified.
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Assessment
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100