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summary: '"Room Event Fields" claims that room events have a "room_id" field.'
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created: 2015-12-10 13:16:10.0
creator: neb
description: |-
  Submitted by @kegan:matrix.org
  This doesn't seem to be mentioned in the spec ( http://matrix.org/docs/spec/r0.0.0/client_server.html#room-event-fields says it is Required) and has made me lose about an hour trying to figure out wtf is going on with my parsing :(
id: '12195'
key: SPEC-298
number: '298'
priority: '2'
project: '10001'
reporter: neb
status: '10100'
type: '1'
updated: 2016-10-28 16:28:02.0
votes: '0'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '12298'
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actions:
- author: richvdh
  body: 'Migrated to github: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/595'
  created: 2016-10-28 16:28:02.0
  id: '13403'
  issue: '12195'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-10-28 16:28:02.0