On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:11 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:22:26PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > [I posted to the Fedora Council list, but reposting here for wider > > distribution.] > > > > As mentioned, we're looking at moving the Fedora Council's main chat to > > Matrix. And as part of that, we're considering a hosted Element server -- > > which obviously could go quite beyond just #fedora-council. Neal > suggested a > > video meeting to talk with interested people about this, and so I set up > > this when-is-good > > > > http://whenisgood.net/k5brwbd > > > > Anyone interested in a preliminary chat about all of this, please sign up > > with your FAS id and availability. Nothing is sent in stone or decided > > already, although I must say I'm pretty excited about Element's open > source > > software-as-a-service offering based on what I've heard from them so far. > > There's quite a lot wrong here - a video meeting(!) to discuss > dropping a commonly used and well established channel of > communication. Well, I guess at least you didn't decide to use the > proprietary awfulness of Slack. > Rich, IRC is not being dropped, it is being bridged to modern, "IRC-native" (for lack of better word in my vocabulary) platform. Contributors who prefer to stay on IRC are welcome to do so and won't really notice any difference. > > Couldn't you just talk about this on email? > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/the-future-of-real-time-chat-discussion-for-the-fedora-council/24628 > > Let me start off: > > What's the reason why hosting your own server for a fairly uncommon > chat protocol is better than continuing to use IRC? > I too love dinosaurs... but I also work on 4 different computers and two mobile devices every day. Having to literally switch hardware to participate in IRC meetings is pain in the ass for some of our contributors (myself included.) > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch > http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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