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#git-bug:matrix.org instead of the gitter rooms.This change will touch a fair amount of docs. Typically, we'd want to keep issues small in nature (a single logical unit of change), but an exception is being made here to simplify a variety of changes to documentation.
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Move the SoT for the community rooms to #git-bug:matrix.org instead of the gitter rooms.
Would it be possible to have also a mirror #git-bug IRC channel somewhere, please?
sudoforge commented (edited)
Would it be possible to have also a mirror #git-bug IRC channel somewhere, please?
i think that's more than reasonable, given that bridging communication ecosystems together is one of the core purposes of the matrix protocol. that said, the federation sunset the libera bridge in 2023 and i'm not sure if there are any publicly run bridges that we could use (to any irc server).
i'm not opposed to running it ourselves (i do this sort of thing for a living after all), but this would be further down the road vs. something that would be as easily accomplished as it once was in the past (using the public bridge).
i haven't looked into this recently, and my information about the foundation's bridge could be outdated. do you have more recent info/resources?
On Sun Apr 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM CEST, sudoforge wrote:
i think that's more than reasonable, given that bridging communication ecosystems together is one of the core purposes of the matrix protocol. that said, the federation sunset the libera bridge last year and i'm not sure if there are any publicly run bridges that we could use (to any irc server).
I am not sure about PUBLIC bridges, but I know that openSUSE, and Fedora Matrix servers (https://chat.opensuse.org and https://chat.fedoraproject.org) bridge plenty of their channels to Libera.IRC. I don’t know how it would be difficult or whether they are even willing to host #git-bug channel (or whether they would be willing to allow use their bridge), but that’s probably the way to start the investigation.
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it looks like openSUSE may be running their own matrix deployment, and the Fedora Project appears to be using an Element-hosted deployment (either paid or donated by Element, unsure). i'm not sure it makes sense to ask these projects to host our chat, as we have no involvement or collaborative development with them, and a quick search didn't surface anything obvious that states either of them have a policy for hosting external, unrelated projects.
just to temper expectations, i don't think running an IRC bridge should be a priority for git-bug -- and definitely not part of this issue. i created https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/discussions/1336 to support gathering the community's opinion on whether or not they prefer other communication platforms/protocols. whether or not we end up doing that should depend on the community's preference (and the maintainers' ability to allocate time, and have the necessary funding for any recurring infrastructure costs).
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