On 16.06.21 11:04, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 15.06.21 um 23:28 schrieb Enrico Tröger: >> On 15.06.21 14:07, Lex Trotman wrote: >>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 21:18, Peter Scholtens via Users >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> 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. >>> "To start chatting on Matrix you’ll need to sign up for a user >>> account." -- Matrix intro >>> >>> So its the same thing, just a different place, users will still have >>> to make yet another account. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Organisations like Mozilla and Gnome seem to be running their own >>> servers, but as Enrico said, that will only happen for Geany if >>> someone does it _and maintains it_ ... and not just for his suggested >>> three weeks ;-) >> Exactly. >> If anyone wants to setup a <insert Matrix's term for a Geany related >> group> and/or maybe even a bridge to IRC, feel free. I didn't mean to >> stop anyone from doing so. Maybe it will be used like IRC before or even >> more. Or not. >> My only wish is that it should last a bit and, in my experience, hosting >> once setup works pretty good and on its own once you setup it carefully. >> But at some point something just breaks (for various reasons) and it >> needs work. So it's always rather a marathon than a sprint. >> >> If anyone wants to build something like this or so, feel free to create >> PR for the website to mention it. > > > There seems to be some misconception. Matrix is a federated protocol. > That means that there is no single instance that is the "host" of a > #geany matrix channel.
Ok, fine. I was rather referring to that we probably want to mention the channel on the website as one possibility of getting and giving support. > If you want to write a bot to get the history on geany.org, or to serve > coffee and drinks, then that's another story. However, the protocol (and > python API for it) has been stable in my personal experience. I know it will be very hard for Lex but no, I don't want to have again that bot and logs on the website and all this. I set this stuff up more than ten years ago and at that time I thought it's absolutely necessary and the hottest stuff :). _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
