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

[Enrico Tröger]

On 16.06.21 11:04, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Am 15.06.21 um 23:28 schrieb Enrico Tröger:
>> On 15.06.21 14:07, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 21:18, Peter Scholtens via Users
>>> <users at lists.geany.org> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> "To start chatting on Matrix you’ll need to sign up for a user
>>> account." -- Matrix intro
>>>
>>> So its the same thing, just a different place, users will still have
>>> to make yet another account.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Organisations like Mozilla and Gnome seem to be running their own
>>> servers, but as Enrico said, that will only happen for Geany if
>>> someone does it _and maintains it_ ... and not just for his suggested
>>> three weeks ;-)
>> Exactly.
>> If anyone wants to setup a <insert Matrix's term for a Geany related
>> group> and/or maybe even a bridge to IRC, feel free. I didn't mean to
>> stop anyone from doing so. Maybe it will be used like IRC before or even
>> more. Or not.
>> My only wish is that it should last a bit and, in my experience, hosting
>> once setup works pretty good and on its own once you setup it carefully.
>> But at some point something just breaks (for various reasons) and it
>> needs work. So it's always rather a marathon than a sprint.
>>
>> If anyone wants to build something like this or so, feel free to create
>> PR for the website to mention it.
> 
> 
> There seems to be some misconception. Matrix is a federated protocol.
> That means that there is no single instance that is the "host" of a
> #geany matrix channel.

Ok, fine.
I was rather referring to that we probably want to mention the channel
on the website as one possibility of getting and giving support.


> If you want to write a bot to get the history on geany.org, or to serve
> coffee and drinks, then that's another story. However, the protocol (and
> python API for it) has been stable in my personal experience.

I know it will be very hard for Lex but no, I don't want to have again
that bot and logs on the website and all this.
I set this stuff up more than ten years ago and at that time I thought
it's absolutely necessary and the hottest stuff :).