Multiple MUCLight owners

[apontini]

Hey everyone

Our team is developing a chat application which is using MongooseIM underneath.
This application allows for groups to have more than one owner but, as far as I understood, MongooseIM doesn't allow for more than one owner when using MUC lights. This would be a problem for us in some instances because, for example, we can't allow multiple users to kick members of a group.
There doesn't seem to be any setting that can help us: the equal_occupants setting makes everythins a member which is not allowed to kick others and all_can_invite only allows others to invite people, and not to kick them.

Is there a solution to this or is this something that has a reason behind it?

[liangdefeng]

I think we should ad an admin role in the MUC light's implementation.
An admin has all the rights an owner has except create and destroy a room.
A room has only one owner, but has multiple admins.

[chrzaszcz]

Thanks for the suggestion. MUC Light has been designed with simplicity as the main goal (hence the MUC Light name), and it allows only one owner per room on purpose, see https://esl.github.io/MongooseDocs/latest/open-extensions/muc_light/#54-changing-the-occupant-list.

However, we are open to new suggestions and it is definitely possible to extend MongooseIM with the support for an admin role. We are not planning to add this feature now, as we are working hard on different goals now (mostly GraphQL API). You can always contact us and we could figure out a solution. There are a few options available including sponsoring Open Source features.

[liangdefeng]

Adding multiple admins in muc_light is a feature I need as well.