On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 07:55:55AM +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > On 9/20/21 10:45 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 18:42, Jürgen E. Fischer <j...@norbit.de> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Nyall, > >> > >> On Mon, 20. Sep 2021 at 16:35:57 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote: > >>> On this note, I would also love to see some form of contributor-focused > >>> text > >>> chat room for QGIS contributors. While there's plenty of chat rooms around > >>> for QGIS users, these tend to attract toward "how do I do this in QGIS" > >>> questions. > >> > >> The IRC channel #qgis still exists. It used to be that. Before it was > >> "replaced" by several "better" alternatives - none of which ever really > >> took > >> off, but it fragmented and destroyed #qgis. Not much life left there - > >> although it looks full of people (most gated from Matrix). > > > > That's a good point. I'd honestly prefer some channel which is > > somewhat gated however, just to weed out the end-user support > > questions. From my experience the irc channel (and matrix and its > > linked channels) did get quite of lot of these "can anyone help me > > with my data?... hello?.... anyone?.... *disconnects*" activity :P > > I would be ok with both IRC, but I think a #qgis-dev channel on either > matrix.org or matrix.osgeo.org would do. > > There are proper matrix clients for web and phones ( even for Linux phones > ;-) ).
I love Matrix but I've to say I still don't have a proper console client (used to have a weechat plugin but it broke and was never able to recover from it) so a bridge to IRC would still be great to me. I'm starting to think that adding an IRC server to the OSGeo infrastructure could be a good idea :) > And we could create a invite only group, setting the bar to say 1 accepted > Pull (whatever qgis repo) Request or so? > Then we could invite recent github committers, and also tell everybody via > the dev list to apply for the invite (and show a link to an accepted PR)? > This makes it not a 'friends'-only list, but a little more objective? Are you afraid of spam that you want the group to be private ? --strk; _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
