matrix-org / matrix-org/matrix-spec
Consider more transactional APIs for things like promoting/demoting members in a room
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A-Client-Server
enhancement
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- HTML
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- Avg merge
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Description
To avoid cases where someone accidentally gets promoted then demoted again because the client has to send the whole state event. Servers could handle this more cleanly if there were endpoints for setting an individual's power level in a room.
Other APIs might benefit from a similar change.
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
No files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the room power-level state-event API described in the specification and identify the client race this proposal addresses. Done would require a decided, scoped design for transactional member power-level endpoints and any related APIs.
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Assessment
- Domain
- api, backend-api-design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100