+1, Great idea, lowers the barrier of entry a lot IMO and doing this with KDE seems like an ideal solution for everyone involved.
Best, Max ________________________________ From: Development <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Wicking <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 1:01 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Development] Mirror IRC channels on KDE's Matrix Instance On 6/28/21 12:51 PM, Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Context > ------- > > After the "Improve the contributor experience" session at the past Qt > Contributors Summit, many ideas came out related to an overall > improvement to the contribution experience, mainly focused on new > people joining the Qt Project. > > One of the topics was Communication, > from which we (qt project people) discussed together with some KDE folks > and agreed that bringing the Qt and KDE communities closer was a good > idea, mainly based on the good experience KDE has currently on the > platform. > > We have a good opportunity to do this via a bridge from our newly > created Libera.chat IRC channels, to KDE's Matrix Instance. > > During the QtCS, > we tried this out, and mirrored the #qt-cs IRC channel > to Matrix: https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/#qt-cs:kde.org > and according to the people that participated in the session the > experience was nice, and it might be worth to bridge all the other > #qt-* channels on IRC. > > Read more about Matrix: https://matrix.org/ > Read more about KDE's Matrix Instance: https://community.kde.org/Matrix > > > Implications > ------------ > > If you prefer IRC, it's totally fine, > this change would only imply that you will get more people > on IRC to interact with. > > If you want to move to Matrix completely, this change will enable > you to stay in touch with folks on the IRC channels. > > Permissions work different on Matrix than IRC, > but with the current list of moderators in the #qt- domain > we can easily assign permissions to people on the Matrix > channels accordingly. > > Let's keep the discussion of other communication platforms > outside this thread, while they might be valid, it's > out of the scope of this proposal. > > Question > -------- > > I would like to ask the Qt Project if you agree or disagree > with the proposal to mirror all the #qt-* channels from Libera.chat > to KDE's Matrix Instance. I agree. Take my +1! > > If we don't have unresolved disagreements, I'd say we can > proceed with the mirroring Monday next week, but if there are > concerns, I would prefer to address them first. > > Cheers > > //! Paul _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
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