On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 19:20 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 4/30/19 7:18 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 22:34 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > > > In this article on chat services used for OSS: > > > > > > https://catfox.life/2019/04/28/keeping-libre-software-accessible-to-all/ > > > > > > I was surprised to see a mention of Gentoo as a project that uses "Discord > > > as an official method of communication". When I searched, I indeed found > > > https://discordapp.com/invite/gentoo. However, I'd never before heard we > > > were using Discord (and didn't find any mentions of Discord on the -dev or > > > -project mailing lists). > > > > > > Is this indeed an official venue? It's not listed on > > > https://gentoo.org/support/ (which does mention IRC). > > > > > I've contacted the author and the author refused to change it. > > The claim is that 'PR team runs it', '8 Gentoo developers have admin > > rights', 'i.e. it is sanctioned by the project itself'. I was suggested > > that if it's not official, we should close it instead. > > If that is how it is perceived I'd be in favor of outright closing it at > least >
I suppose the problem boils down to 'perceived by whom'. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
