Great documentation

[pztrn]

We need a great documentation about installing, configuring and using.

[Ezwen]

Hi! Short comment to tell you that for the future I would be very interested by this bridge, and that it would be great to have more documentation on the actual features of this bridge :)

Among my questions:

• Does it only bridge MUCs?
• Or does it also bridge the XMPP contact list into multiple 1-1 Matrix conversations?
• Does it create new "fake" Matrix users on synapse for each person you try to speak to?

thanks a lot for your work on this project!

[pztrn]

• It will bridge only MUCs.
• It will (in future) bridge 1-1 conversations with MUC users.
• Yes.

Also, for now last good and working commit is https://github.com/pztrn/matrix-xmpp-bridge/commit/4a24b0f913566932d36cdf167140f29505c72ddb, if you wanna try it. It will only bridge one MUC to one Matrix room, without 1-1s.

[Ezwen]

thanks for the swift answer! I might give it a try if I find time.

So if I summarize, I found on github 2 rather actively developed xmpp bridges, mxpp which focuses on 1-1 conversations through the XMPP roster, and your fork which focuses on the MUC and 1-1 conversations through the MUC.

Neat that both attempts appear complementary :).

[Ezwen]

To make sure I understand correctly what your bridge aims to achieve, I've drafted this figure. Did I get it right?

[pztrn]

More or less, but:

1. Bridge connects to matrix homeserver as bridge, not as matrix client.
2. 1-1 conversations isn't done now.