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

[Peter Scholtens]

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 at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 17:44, Thomas Martitz <kugel at 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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