Tim Abbott

@iamahuman would you be up for finishing this PR?

@mast22 I think a change like this is unlikely to be merged without tests and documentation. (It's also failing CI). This project's maintainers don't have a huge amount of time...

Note that a bitfield is transmitted over the wire as just a single 32-bit word, and I expect Python to do a similar type of work to make what you're...

The requirements list versions that are at least 1.4, not at most 1.4. 1.10 > 1.4, so I think the documentation is correct. It probably would be reasonable to update...

@alyohea I'd happily take a pull request that does this in a reasonable way.

These changes all seem like improvements, thanks for doing this!

I merged the first 4 commits as the series ending with 36b0fe1c11342b3892945c330ec1cf7209e5df7c.

Yeah I think a tweak of that form is probably a reasonable option.

@madrix01 you'll need to debug the node tests for this before we can merge it.

This needs a rebase for our recent topics PRs merged recently, but should otherwise be good to test-deploy on chat.zulip.org.