[Geany-Users] Future of the IRC ...

[Lex Trotman]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 15:45, Thomas Martitz <kugel at rockbox.org> wrote:
>
> Am 14.06.21 um 23:30 schrieb Enrico Tröger:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Instead of quitting one could try IRC combined with the Matrix
> >> protocol bridge. This creates a very low threshold to ask questions
> >> (IRC on liberal.chat), while keeping the possibility to interact
> >> later even on the phone with the Element app.
> > It would require someone who is doing the setup and ideally also
> > maintain for more than three weeks.
> > Though if someone really wants to do it and there is actually a use for
> > it, why not.
>
>
> Well we could ditch IRC and bridging entirely and go for Matrix (and ML
> + github) entirely. I'm using Matrix for personal communication lately
> and I'm amazed. I have setup a home server and also experimented a bit
> with scripting bots.
>
> In my past experience, key developers aren't even participating in IRC
> anymore so it's next to useless for me. I wouldn't give up on an
> "social" option yet where you can also discuss non-technical topics from
> time to time but I'm not attached to IRC really.

As I said above, IM of any sort is only really useful if enough people
are in the same time zone, and actually participating, but for a
project with low participation by "experts" it is a poor support
mechanism.

Although maybe it is useful for the folks cooperating doing releases
(whatever happened to 1.38 BTW?)

Cheers
Lex

>
> Best regards.
>
>
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