As an FOSS project, one further requirement I would suggest is to *keep* using an open source and federated protocol. Obliging infrequent users to sign on to a developer site seems like a too high threshold to me. The Matrix protocol is practically proven by the reference implementation of Element, which can run as App and as webclient. Other Matrix clients exist: https://matrix.org/clients Organisations like Gnome and Mozilla have switched to Matrix, to give some examples.
Peter Sch.
15 jun. 2021 12:47:05 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 17:44, Thomas Martitz kugel@rockbox.org wrote:
Am 15.06.21 um 08:35 schrieb Lex Trotman:
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?)
Well, at least with IM chat rooms you automatically get the history to your clients while you went away, in that regard it's no worse than email or github.
Hmmm, possibly, as I've never used it I don't know how well it might work for support.
It is also nice that github, discourse, zulip etc keep conversations together, does it do that or mix them up like IRC does?
Anyhow whatever we decide, we need something that supports clients without effort (like a browser not a specific client) and needs no admin/maintenance effort since the Geany organisation has none available as Enrico pointed out above.
Cheers Lex
Time zones is a general problem which cannot be solved.
Best regards.
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