Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-30 Thread Kenny Duffus
On Tuesday, 29 August 2023 13:09:24 BST Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > Hello, > > just a couple of comments from my side ... . > > * In my view we have close-to-zero energy/capacity to move (nor > strongly influence) our users in their choices when it comes to sync > communication channels.

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-29 Thread Agustin Benito (toscalix)
Hello, just a couple of comments from my side ... . * In my view we have close-to-zero energy/capacity to move (nor strongly influence) our users in their choices when it comes to sync communication channels. * We never did have such capacity, not in the IRC days, the jabber days, where the

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 3:12 AM Carl Schwan wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 08:57:31 CEST Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote: > > Hello KDE community, > > > > apologies for cross-posting! > > Please let's stop doing that, it's generating a lot of duplicated emails > for > everyone. Most people

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-24 Thread Carl Schwan
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 08:57:31 CEST Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote: > Hello KDE community, > > apologies for cross-posting! Please let's stop doing that, it's generating a lot of duplicated emails for everyone. Most people interested in this discussion are in the kde-community channel

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-24 Thread Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Hi all, we are a diverse community with a diverse set of needs, that is evident in the responses. There may be a more general discussion to be had about formalizing a process for adding/removing services to KDE's infrastructure. In fact, there is currently a Phabricator task about this, which

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
My response is interspersed. On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 9:51 AM Paul Brown wrote: > On Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:04:04 CEST Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there always will be > people > >

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:04:04 CEST Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there always will be people > > > jumping out saying "Why wasn't I told" "Was it discussed before" again > > > and again.

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Niccolò Ve
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 6:01 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 17:16:16 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 5:04 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > > > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Johnny Jazeix
Hi, Le mer. 23 août 2023 à 18:01, Ingo Klöcker a écrit : > > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 17:16:16 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 5:04 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > > > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal,

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Tomaz Canabrava
No, It’s not. Biggest gnome channel is gnome Brazil with more than 800 users. It’s on telegram. On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 at 16:50 Fusion Future wrote: > +1 for the decision. I don't feel it very necessary to maintain the > Telegram bridge as GNOME chat rooms are also Matrix/IRC only. I also see >

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 17:16:16 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 5:04 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there always will be > > > > people > > > > jumping out saying "Why

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Niccolò Ve
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 5:04 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there always will be people > > > jumping out saying "Why wasn't I told" "Was it discussed before" again > > > and again. > > > >

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there always will be people > > jumping out saying "Why wasn't I told" "Was it discussed before" again > > and again. > > Please note that the community was never told about this decision

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Niccolò Ve
> Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there always will be people > jumping out saying "Why wasn't I told" "Was it discussed before" again > and again. Please note that the community was never told about this decision before yesterday, and it was never discussed publicly. On Wed, Aug 23,

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Fusion Future
Correct: s/reliable/unreliable/

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Fusion Future
+1 for the decision. I don't feel it very necessary to maintain the Telegram bridge as GNOME chat rooms are also Matrix/IRC only. I also see the Telegram bridge becomes more and more reliable in other non-KDE groups, so it's increasingly annoying that sometimes messages sent from Matrix can't

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 23 August 2023 13:56:13 CEST Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: > On 23.8.2023 14.24, Paul Brown wrote: > > A lot fo good ideas we can use to reach a compromise, but this ... > > > >> KDE members are of course free to participate in discussions anywhere > >> they want, but loading KDE

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Brown
Dear All, Sorry for being a pain in the neck about this, but the more I read the plan to migrate, the less it seems a plan at all. It just boils down to a deadline. There is no contingency, nobody has considered what the people who use Telegram to interact with us want, nobody has opened any

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Niccolò Ve
> 3rd party > social network platforms need moderators/user support. And Promo time. A LOT of promo time. Maintaing 3rd party social network platforms is much, much, much more time expensive compared to maintaining the bridge. On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 2:05 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas <

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
On 23.8.2023 14.24, Paul Brown wrote: A lot fo good ideas we can use to reach a compromise, but this ... KDE members are of course free to participate in discussions anywhere they want, but loading KDE resources (sysadmin team & machines) with all possible proprietary network doesn't seem a

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Brown
A lot fo good ideas we can use to reach a compromise, but this ... > KDE members are of course free to participate in discussions anywhere > they want, but loading KDE resources (sysadmin team & machines) with all > possible proprietary network doesn't seem a priority for me. ...  By that

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Perhaps it is helpful to provide a summary of the responses so far so we can figure out the best way forward. Sometimes hard decisions need to be made, and all of your opinions are important. I hope everyone's views are represented below. If not, please let me know, it was not intentional.

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Vincent Pinon
Le 23/08/2023 à 03:40, Paul Brown a écrit : Kdenlive is another example where most users on both the Spanish and English channels are largely on Telegram. Hello, As a (former/on pause) kdenlive dev & community member, I used to switch between forums, bugzilla, mailing list, phabricator,

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Niccolò Ve
Just to confirm: this means that if we find a more reliable way to bridge the channels we can avoid this? If so, I'd be happy to give it a shot. ~Nicco Il giorno mer 23 ago 2023 alle ore 10:27 Ingo Klöcker ha scritto: > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 09:34:04 CEST Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > > (On

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 09:34:04 CEST Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > (On top of what Paul said, if this happens, should we also stop with the > Reddit and Facebook management, since it’s a closed source software on for > profit companies?) The Telegram bridging is shut down because of unmanageable

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Tomaz Canabrava
(On top of what Paul said, if this happens, should we also stop with the Reddit and Facebook management, since it’s a closed source software on for profit companies?) On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 at 03:41 Paul Brown wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 22:08:34 CEST Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > KDE

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 22:08:34 CEST Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > KDE Connect has a Telegram group with 660 members (vs 100 on matrix). I > don't know if we are the exception It's not. Kdenlive is another example where most users on both the Spanish and English channels are largely on

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Tobias Fella
Hi, On 8/22/23 12:45, Niccolò Ve wrote: This is a terribly careless decision, for multiple reasons. Firstly, this is something that has a strong impact on the entire community and, because of that, it should've been discussed publicly before agreeing on this. I had been told this was going

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Andy B
I side with the comments made by Niccolo and Abert. We have some 300 users in Telegram vs about 170 on Matrix for the visual design channel. Our audience, being a graphical design and user experience channel, tends to attract users who are more inclined to the arts and may be less technical than

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Albert Vaca Cintora
KDE Connect has a Telegram group with 660 members (vs 100 on matrix). I don't know if we are the exception with such a big group on Telegram, but this is going to be a hit to our community :( On Tue, 22 Aug 2023, 09:02 Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, wrote: > Hello KDE community, > > apologies for

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Joshua Goins
To lighten the mood, I support this decision and it's good we're finally sorting this out. As previously discussed, I'm not sure how discussing this publicly would change anything. As implied in the e-mail, this seems to be a decision that had to be made between KDE and EMS (who hosts the

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Dawid Wrobel
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 2:02 PM Kai Bojens wrote: > On 22.08.23 12:45, Niccolò Ve wrote: > > This is a terribly careless decision, for multiple reasons. > > No, it's not. This is an Open Source Community in which we all have at > least one thing in common: our software should be free and we work

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Kai Bojens
On 22.08.23 12:45, Niccolò Ve wrote: This is a terribly careless decision, for multiple reasons. No, it's not. This is an Open Source Community in which we all have at least one thing in common: our software should be free and we work very hard to ensure its freedom. Telegram on the other hand

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Thank you for the thoughtful response, Nicco! Of course absolutely no one wants for you or anyone else to stop contributing to KDE because of this. And I understand many of your points and agree to with the view that the transition time is short. I am helping out in the capacity of

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2023-08-22 Thread Antoni Bella Pérez
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android - Forwarded Message - From: "Antoni Bella Pérez" To: "niccolo.venera...@gmail.com" Cc: Sent: dt., d’ag. 22, 2023 at 13:31 Subject: Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos   Hi to all,

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Niccolò Ve
This is a terribly careless decision, for multiple reasons. Firstly, this is something that has a strong impact on the entire community and, because of that, it should've been discussed publicly before agreeing on this. I had been told this was going to happen, but only through private messages

[announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
Hello KDE community, apologies for cross-posting! The time has finally come: both Telegram <-> Matrix bridges will be shut down in 4 weeks on *Wednesday 20 September*. Let's start the co-ordination process now so everything goes as smoothly as possible. For all KDE contributors: please read