Include guidelines how to backfill with /messages
and /context
#1281
Labels
A-S2S
Server-to-Server API (federation)
clarification
An area where the expected behaviour is understood, but the spec could do with being more explicit
Link to problem area:
https://spec.matrix.org/v1.1/server-server-api/#backfilling-and-retrieving-missing-events
Issue
As brought up in matrix-org/complement#492 (review) and matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#3030 (comment), there is no right answer for when and how to backfill events.
The spec just says this:
But it should probably also mention that
/context
should backfill at the very least. And have some heuristics for when exactly to backfill. Is it acceptable to have gaps (MSC3871)? etcThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: