Chris Bloom

(Also, selfishly, that would solve _soooo_ many problems on our translation side)

For context, this seems to be a duplicate of #31 and https://github.com/ossf/osv-schema/issues/35#issuecomment-1068498931, with `versionStartExcluding` being synonymous with the lower bound exclusive operator `>`.

We've been considering adding this as a database specific field value. I agree it would be helpful to denote in the file what the format is. At the moment consuming...

If a system publishes more than one format in the same stream then the processing systems need a way to interrogate each file to decide how to handle it. In...

@oliverchang I noted earlier that GitHub had been considering adding this as a database specific field and that I was in support of it. Your point about this particular solution...

We are doing the channel name -> ID lookup in almost every call because we're passing in a channel name from a chatop command, as in (contrived, but illustrative) `.chatops...

If that's of interest, I'd be happy to submit a PR

> storing lookups with subclassing the client and overriding some methods I'm not sure I follow. Can you expand on this idea and help me understand what you're suggesting here?...

Thanks for providing the extra context. It sounds as if it would be trivial to do this 1-off as needed in consuming applications through subclassing and then overriding the mixin....

@gmhawash I'm not an expert on socket mode by any means, but I think the answer to your question is no. You can have multiple connections over socket mode for...