Because this is the first release, it has several moving parts to it:
* The version variables have been defined.
* The towncrier changelog has been prepared for future modifications.
* The templating has been updated to better support future versions of the specification.
* A release process document has been created.
It's worth noting that Synapse does not make use of the `poll` or `unpoll` fields, and therefore the wording has been updated to permit servers to reject users. In the case of synapse, it would automatically reject everyone in the list by nature of ignoring it.
This is useful for when we start defining event schemas. This also has a sanity check for ensuring the directory exists, allowing the IS and push API paths to be uncommented.
We're using Circle CI for testing a bunch of the spec, and so far it has the advantage of being faster. Also, it's not named the same as me.
We can also remove the Travis CI specific check in generate-matrix-org-assets because Circle CI doesn't touch this.
There's two kinds of transactions currently: one with EDUs and one without. The one with EDUs is only used on /send, however the schema is still somewhat worth splitting out for simplicity.
The examples are brought apart to make them slightly more reusable for when they get dumped into the relevant sections of the spec (see TODO in server_server_api.rst)
Further, the Transactions stuff introduces tuples to the spec. The units.py has been updated to support this.
The changelog shows up via stdout, everything else via stderr. We dump as much information as we can into the changelog to make debugging errors easier.
Previously if multiple pages were returned then the script would lose the results.
A check to ensure the response is an array was also added. This helps avoid somewhat cryptic errors when iterating over non-lists (eg: error messages, bad output, etc)
Richard van der Hoff