As an FOSS project, one further requirement I would suggest is to *keep* using an open source and federated protocol. Obliging infrequent users to sign on to a developer site seems like a too high threshold to me. The Matrix protocol is practically proven by the reference implementation of Element, which can run as App and as webclient. Other Matrix clients exist: https://matrix.org/clients Organisations like Gnome and Mozilla have switched to Matrix, to give some examples.
Peter Sch. 15 jun. 2021 12:47:05 Lex Trotman <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 17:44, Thomas Martitz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am 15.06.21 um 08:35 schrieb Lex Trotman: >>> >>> 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?) >>> >> >> Well, at least with IM chat rooms you automatically get the history to >> your clients while you went away, in that regard it's no worse than >> email or github. > > Hmmm, possibly, as I've never used it I don't know how well it might > work for support. > > It is also nice that github, discourse, zulip etc keep conversations > together, does it do that or mix them up like IRC does? > > Anyhow whatever we decide, we need something that supports clients > without effort (like a browser not a specific client) and needs no > admin/maintenance effort since the Geany organisation has none > available as Enrico pointed out above. > > Cheers > Lex > >> >> Time zones is a general problem which cannot be solved. >> >> >> 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 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
