Steven Gum

This seems blocked at the moment because the version of electron now being used in the emulator does not like the LUIS service server (due electron using BoringSSL which is...

For a concrete example that was debugged with @adewaleo's help, one example where this can cause local tests to pass but CI builds to fail is when `--location` is configured....

The ignoringSpeechInput and ignoringNonSpeechInput InputHints do work, however they only apply for the duration of the message playback. See the newly added FAQ's question: [What are `` tags? Why are...

We should rewrite the existing JS samples to have proper rejection handling. Perhaps follow the pattern set via https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-js/pull/3492

The `ToDo` bot/skill would also need the Audience. When `ToDo` is acting as a bot, the audience is not required, unless it is messaging both public and gov cloud channels....

The Audience/ConversationReference work was done in R8 (initially in [C#](https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet/pull/3409)), and the struct we use to contain the necessary fields is the [SkillConversationReference](https://github.com/microsoft/botbuilder-dotnet/blob/master/libraries/Microsoft.Bot.Builder/Skills/SkillConversationReference.cs)

I believe a sample demonstrating how to have a skill send real "proactive" messages could address the issue. @darrenj do you have any "Skills proactive" pain points that could be...

@danlavrushko, which version of the SDK are you using and which channels are you targetting? @WizX20 I'm not familiar with the VA code base, but currently skills don't play well...

@carlosscastro I can chip in for this work in R12 once I get up to speed. I'd like to ensure that this feature lands.

Update: we're still waiting for step 1 to be completed.