On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 15:45, Thomas Martitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 14.06.21 um 23:30 schrieb Enrico Tröger: > > Hi, > > > >> Instead of quitting one could try IRC combined with the Matrix > >> protocol bridge. This creates a very low threshold to ask questions > >> (IRC on liberal.chat), while keeping the possibility to interact > >> later even on the phone with the Element app. > > It would require someone who is doing the setup and ideally also > > maintain for more than three weeks. > > Though if someone really wants to do it and there is actually a use for > > it, why not. > > > Well we could ditch IRC and bridging entirely and go for Matrix (and ML > + github) entirely. I'm using Matrix for personal communication lately > and I'm amazed. I have setup a home server and also experimented a bit > with scripting bots. > > In my past experience, key developers aren't even participating in IRC > anymore so it's next to useless for me. I wouldn't give up on an > "social" option yet where you can also discuss non-technical topics from > time to time but I'm not attached to IRC really.
As I said above, IM of any sort is only really useful if enough people are in the same time zone, and actually participating, but for a project with low participation by "experts" it is a poor support mechanism. Although maybe it is useful for the folks cooperating doing releases (whatever happened to 1.38 BTW?) Cheers Lex > > Best regards. > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
