spacebarchat / spacebarchat/server
Authority and identity oriented federation (server-server API)
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- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Since the early days of this project, federating multiple servers with one another has been a much wanted feature. This ticket is to track the progress of various federation related features:
- Server identification
- Object ID remapping facility to resolve ID conflicts
- Server-server message format
- Federation proxying
- Server ACLs
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
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by identifying the existing server-server API and federation-related code, then separate the work into server identification, object ID remapping, message format, proxying, and server ACLs; done requires resolving the five unchecked checklist items.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- api, backend, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100