]] Denver Gingerich > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 01:19:41PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Quite a lot of decisions are made every day on mailing > > lists (and IRC, Matrix, in person, and in a whole lot of other arenas) > > they're just a lot less formal than GRs. > > At the risk of going a bit off-topic here, I'm curious about Matrix > being singled out here, as I hadn't seen it used in a Debian context > before. The only information I could find on Matrix use by Debian was > at https://wiki.debian.org/Matrix - it appears Debian runs a Matrix > server at matrix.debian.social and discusses Matrix packaging at > #debian-matrix:matrix.org (i.e. on non-Debian infrastructure) but > otherwise doesn't use Matrix.
Off-topic is fine. :-) I listed it because I like it, and while not used a lot directly in Debian, quite a lot of users on IRC are using it through a bridge. I'd assume there are also more isolated communities using it here and there without necessarily announcing it. «on non-Debian infrastructure» doesn't really make sense for a federated system such as Matrix, since a room can have multiple aliases and the history is distributed to all servers that have users in a given room. > It feels like the Debian community is pretty comfortable with IRC > (reasonably so) and so I was wondering if this was more of an off-hand > comment, or if there are other uses of Matrix by Debian that go beyond > what I mentioned above. It was indeed more of an off-hand comment. While I think matrix is a (technologically) much better choice than IRC, I suspect we're stuck with IRC for a very long time since it's quite frequently good enough and history has proven that it has a lot of stickiness. Cheers, -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
