Independently of the topic /per se/, I wish I didn't see herd mentality as a decision basis in a R&D project - hurts my feelings.
Cheers! Beuc On 18/01/2020 01:53, Alon Zakai wrote: > I definitely get that there are a lot of reasonable opinions on this. > I honestly agree with most of the opinions (I wish discord were more > open, for example), and I don't have a strong preference myself. > > But I think this is bigger than this project - as Sam said, the > WebAssembly community has been using discord, and I think it would > take an extremely strong reason for us to not continue with them > there. This is sort of like github - I agree with the arguments > against using it (not fully open, too centralized, policy issues, > etc.) but in the end that's where the community is, so for most > projects it's the place that is easiest and takes the least effort - > in this case, almost no effort, as the wasm community already uses > that discord and even has an #emscripten room. > > (I didn't know LLVM also uses discord - that's even more reason, then.) > > If people want to experiment with a bridge from discord to IRC or > something like that, I'd be interested to see that happen! > > - Alon > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:53 AM Sam Clegg <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > FWIW I think mozilla switched to https://matrix.org/. > > But LLVM and WebAssembly are both on discord now. Since a lot > of us also work on those projects I (personally) think discord > makes sense for now. > > This might be a case of Alon having to make an DBFL decision > because it unlikey people we agree here. > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:26 AM Shlomi Fish > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Alon, > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:37:28 -0800 > Alon Zakai <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > In around a month Mozilla will remove the irc.mozilla.org > <http://irc.mozilla.org> IRC server we've > > been using for #emscripten. So we need another option for > real-time > > discussion. > > > > One option is discord, where the wasm community has been > gathering, and > > there's already an #emscripten room there that someone set up, > > > > > https://discordapp.com/channels/453584038356058112/590215642444202044 > (docs > > PR: https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/pull/10165) > > > > I don't particularly have an opinion between the options in > this space. > > Discord seems reasonable to go with for now since as I said > it's already > > used by wasm in general which obviously overlaps with > emscripten users > > quite a lot. But if there's interest, perhaps we could also > set up a bridge > > to other places people want, or consider other options. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > I dislike discord's web UI because it keeps emitting beeps and the > "servers"/chatrooms multiplicity is confusing. I also don't > like slack too much. > I like freenode for IRC and also use the telegram desktop client. > > > - Alon > > > > > > -- > > Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ > Optimising Code for Speed - https://shlom.in/optimise > > The worst way to waste your time is to never waste it. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - > http://shlom.in/reply . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from > it, send an email to > [email protected] > <mailto:emscripten-discuss%[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/20200117202608.1d671515%40telaviv1.shlomifish.org. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/CAEX4NpRpxHobMFdGQES7DNBbFiB9Pu7MBNr%2BQx%3DAFwCfYgbD5Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/CAEX4NpRpxHobMFdGQES7DNBbFiB9Pu7MBNr%2BQx%3DAFwCfYgbD5Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/b9e66723-fe69-c1f9-34f0-4a4e52cc1eb1%40beuc.net.
