But also, I am not sure that "parity with Synapse" is necessarily required or desirable. Sure, it needs to be fully functional and handle all the basic federatable communications, but its not like most small scale self-hosters need/want all the enterprise features being packed into Synapse. I think it is better for the Matrix ecosystem to have various server implementation that target different segments but can all still communicate.
Dendrite shipped 0.4.0 2 weeks ago, and 0.4.1 ships today (with a 10x speed-up in state resolution performance). Meanwhile it passes 92% of the server-server matrix compliance test suite (sytest) and 61% of client-server.
I'd expect us to ship 1.0 once these numbers hit 100%, which at the current rate should be before end of the year.
Do you not think it's in the best interest of Element Matrix Services to ship Dendrite? Presumably it would reduce their cost of operations significantly ...
