On 5/14/21 2:19 AM, Kenny Duffus wrote:
Hi
TLDR: If you are an admin in one of our channels you could help ease the
migration by inviting @kdetgadmin to the channel and making them an admin with
the power to add admins
As some of you will be aware we have for a while been planning to migrate from our
current IRC based Telegram bridge to a much more feature-full Matrix based bridge, kindly
provided by Element Matrix Services on our matrix homeserver. The main feature being that
on IRC and Matrix you will be able to talk to "real" users representing those
on Telegram, media is also bridged better now
So instead of messages going matrix<>irc<>telegram they will now go
irc<>matrix<>telegram
I have been slowly migrating a few channels over the last couple of weeks as we
tried to iron out any issues
To enable and manage this we need to have admin in the telegram channels, some
of you will have seen requests for this by myself, @sealne, and or @kdetgadmin
As part of running the bridge we now have a KDE Telegram Admin account
(@kdetgadmin) that owns the bridge bot and also should have admin in any of our
community Telegram Channels. This will minimise the bus factor risk in the
future as well. Channel owners may also wish to give channel ownership to
@kdetgadmin as well to give us as a community additional protection.
@kdetgadmin will have a similar role to the KDE_GC user on freenode irc network
going forward
Thanks for your help
Thanks so much for doing this, Kenny. It's hard to overstate how
dramatically better the new bridge is compared to the old one. I've been
able to move to Matrix full-time and leave all the Telegram rooms I was
in before.
Nate
