Hi Timothy, Timothy <orgm...@tec.tecosaur.net> writes:
> Doing something similar for Org development is an interesting idea. Something > similar probably could be set up with the Org room, or a dedicated Org-dev > room > (I’m aware of Bastien’s thoughts on wanting development and help to not be > separated, but while I like the idea of them living in the same space, I’m > personally a big fan of categorisation. For instance, we could make an > org-mode > space with a few different rooms: org-dev, org-help, org-showcase, org-chat, > etc.). I'm all for places where people can freely discuss anything related to Org. There are already many such places: #org-mode and #org-mode-fr on IRC, r/org-mode on reddit.com, stackoverflow.com, etc. I don't want development decisions to be taken in such places---that I think we all agree upon. Based on that, I don't want a separated IRC channel or a Matrix room to be promoted (de facto, by its name) as the place for "contributing to Org's development": #org-dev or a dedicated Matrix room would sound like this to newcomers. #orgmode is the IM complement of the mailing list: a place where Orgers discuss. On top of that, the ML is the place where to suggest patches. I think I get your point about categorisation in general, but in this case, there is the risk of excluding a category of people (lurkers, occasional contributors, etc.) or more precisely: to incidently and inadvertently encourage them to self-exclude themselves. > With regards to accessibility, I think Matrix is also reaching a rather good > point. Is it possible to lurk in a Matrix room without any login? The same way you can send an email to the mailing list without being a subscriber (vs opening a GitHub issue without having a GitHub account) you can lurk in #org-mode without having a registered account on the IRC server, which is good. > The current state of affairs includes an Emacs client, a host of > dedicated apps, in-browser web clients, and more. While the ability to peruse > archives has not yet been developed, it is also possible to copy a link to a > particular message, and so a conversation can be transferred from Matrix to > the > ML with a link to the initial conversation, e.g. > <https://matrix.to/#/!rUhEinythPhVTdddsb:matrix.org/$1663983705132172ICPRd:matrix.org> It's good to be able to connect to Matrix via Emacs: I will try this myself soon. All best, -- Bastien