Infrastructure

Deployed a [Matrix] federated instance on new Debian 9 VM vm221:

• Matrix server URL: https://matrix.documentfoundation.org (auth by SSO, currently restricted to BoD + staff)
• Federation URL: https://matrix.documentfoundation.org:8448 (identity URL: @$SSO_USERNAME:documentfoundation.org)
• PoC Web Client: https://vm221.documentfoundation.org (can also use https://riot.im or any other web/desktop/mobile client)

Deployed a [Matrix] federated instance on new Debian 9 VM vm221:

• Matrix server URL: https://matrix.documentfoundation.org (auth by
  SSO, currently restricted to BoD + staff)
• Federation URL: https://matrix.documentfoundation.org:8448 (identity
  URL: @$SSO_USERNAME:documentfoundation.org)
• PoC Web Client: https://vm221.documentfoundation.org (can also use
  https://riot.im or any other web/desktop/mobile client)

Trying to have a look at that one from the Android client at
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/

It asks for Home Server URL and Identitiy Server URL, both with https://
prefix - Home Server likely is https://matrix.documentfoundation.org,
but what's the Identity Server URL? Neither
https://matrix.documentfoundation.org nor
https://matrix.documentfoundation.org:8448 work out. I see the SSO login
page, but get

{"errcode":"M_UNRECOGNIZED","error":"Unrecognized request"}

I can't use @floeff:documentfoundation.org because "URL has to begin
with http[s]://"

but what's the Identity Server URL?

https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-an-identity-server%3F
That's optional, and we don't have one currently. You can thus keep that field black.

https://matrix.documentfoundation.org:8448 work out. I see the SSO login
page, but get

{"errcode":"M_UNRECOGNIZED","error":"Unrecognized request"}

I believe this is what Heiko reported that during the March 05 team meeting, so same answer I gave there: while CAS login (Single Sign-On) is part of the [Matrix] spec, not all clients implement the full spec (yet). Just like other features, like end-to-end encryption. Third-party clients, in particular, might be lagging behind.

For riot-android I found this bug https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/issues/3025 , and these release notes https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/releases/tag/v0.8.24 . Are you using v0.8.24 or later?

I believe this is what Heiko reported that during the March 05 team
meeting, so same answer I gave there: while CAS login (Single Sign-On)
is part of the [Matrix] spec, not all clients implement the full spec
(yet). Just like other features, like end-to-end encryption. Third-party
clients, in particular, might be lagging behind.

Oh, sorry, seems I missed that part.

For riot-android I found this bug
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/issues/3025 , and these
release notes
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/releases/tag/v0.8.24 . Are you
using v0.8.24 or later?

0.9.1 from the Play store, released April 23.

As discussed in our in-person meeting in Munich, Sophie can out you in touch with people from the Matrix fork.

Also discussed there is to re-evaluate Nextcloud Talk.
I played a bit with it, it seems to be better, but still a bit sluggish from time to time. We need to test further.