This Week in Ruma › published on 2016-04-24 by Jimmy Cuadra

From the editor

I said last week that there wouldn't be an update this week because I'm on vacation, but as it turns out a bit of progress was made before I left and I have a few minutes to make the update while my partner writes postcards to send back home.

Notable changes to ruma

Add initial stub implementation of user-interactive authentication. Matrix's interactive auth system is in a bit of a transition, so there has been lots of investigation and discussion with the core team to learn how it works. I was able to make some good progress on how it will be represented as Rust code, but there are many more changes to come. I hope to have "dummy" authentication working soon.

Matrix at large

Many of my questions about the specification have been answered, thanks to Richard van der Hoff of the Matrix core team. A few issues are ongoing, but all of this discussion will be very helpful in improving the specification and clarifying some flows so that Ruma can implement them.

Specifically: