<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 7:20 PM Sean Mooney <<a href="mailto:smooney@redhat.com">smooney@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 18:06 +0200, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:<br>
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 6:01 PM Thomas Goirand <<a href="mailto:zigo@debian.org" target="_blank">zigo@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > On 5/19/21 6:22 PM, Artem Goncharov wrote:<br>
> > > Yes, pool would be great.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Please do not take this offensive, but just stating IRC survived till<br>
> > now and thus we should keep it is not really productive from my pov.<br>
> > <br>
> > What about: everything else than IRC is just plain crap? Seriously,<br>
> > that's plain truth...<br>
> > <br>
> <br>
> So is IRC. Seriously, I like bashing Slack as much as anyone, but this goes<br>
> a bit overboard. You're disrespecting a decent number of FOSS projects that<br>
> put good effort in making next generation communication platforms.<br>
its not about slack bashing but there are types of applciation that are centralised<br>
and comercailed that have usage paridimes that many it seams in the opentack comunity today<br>
do not like. i actully had assume if we were to ever move away form irc we would move to<br>
a decentrialed plathform like matrix or similar but i think the thread has show that wile<br>
many fine the limitation of irc frustrating there are also many that find its simplicty uesful.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's simplicity from the hacker's perspective, not from the user's. Yes, I'm also fascinated how simple and reliable the technology is, but that's not the point.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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if we did not have gerrit, email, pastbin and etherpads to use in addtion to irc i definetly would<br>
want somethign more and again im not agaisnt something like matix or other protocol now but im also not convice<br>
those solution are more inclusive.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Same comment as above. Look at this problem from the perspective of a person who doesn't have a single clue how IRC is different from ICQ and what a bouncer is.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> > <br>
> > > Why is everything what OpenStack doing/using is so complex? (Please do<br>
> > not comment on the items below, I’m not really interested in any<br>
> > answers/explanations. This is a rhetorical question)<br>
> > > - gerrit. Yes it is great, yes it is fulfilling our needs. But how much<br>
> > we would lower the entry barrier for the contributions not using such<br>
> > complex setup that we have.<br>
> > > - irc. Yes it survived till now. Yes it does simple things the best way.<br>
> > When I am online - everything is perfect (except of often connection<br>
> > drops). But the fun starts when I am not online (one of the simplest things<br>
> > for the communication platform with normally 60% of the day duration). Why<br>
> > should anyone care of searching any reasonably maintained IRC bouncer (or<br>
> > grep through eavesdrop logs), would should anyone pay for a simple mobile<br>
> > client?<br>
> > > - issue tracker. You know yourself...<br>
> > <br>
> > Gerrit is just wonderful. What's hard isn't gerrit itself, is the way we<br>
> > are processing the auth, which is another problem.<br>
> > <br>
> > As for IRC bouncer, have you ever tried Quassel? It comes with:<br>
> > - a heavy client on all major platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac)<br>
> > - a mobile client (which is quite nice, really...)<br>
> > - an irc bouncer that's so easy to setup<br>
> > <br>
> <br>
> Do I get it right that you're suggesting that YOU will maintain a free IRC<br>
> bouncer for everyone who needs it for OpenStack business? Or do you suggest<br>
> that everyone sets up their own one? Even outreachy interns, drive-by<br>
> contributors and non-coding contributors?<br>
> <br>
> In other words, "just use an IRC bouncer" shifts the problem from us to<br>
> those who want to talk to us. So much for inclusiveness.<br>
for what its worth i have work on openstack for 8 year or so now and i do not<br>
and never have used an irc bouncer. granted i tend to leave my laptop connected to irc most of the time<br>
but even when i dont i dont think being conected 24/7 is required or even nessalry a good thing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, if somebody asks a question on #openstack-ironic at 5am my time, the only chance they'll get an answer is if they stay online. Or realize they need to come online at a different, potentially inconvenient time. (Or use email, but sigh. People nowadays use emails as the last resort :( )</div><div><br></div><div>And I only learn about their question because *I* have a bouncer. If I did not, I would have to go through the channel logs (I even forget to check the logs from our meetings, soo.. unlikely).<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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again im sure my usage patterns differ form use an i get most of the benifti of a bounce by just leaving weechat<br>
open in a window 24/7 but i do take your point that ne contibuter may not have irc, they also may not have pathform<br>
X if we were to choose a different one. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Most platforms have a web client and server-side history, so this is not an issue. There is IRCCloud, but the free plan seems to offer only 2 hours of "offline" time.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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this is now well off the orginal topic but what woudl you propose we use if we were to replace irc?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is, indeed, not quite on-topic, but I'm advocating for Matrix, mostly because that's where Mozilla went and because it seems to check all the boxes. I definitely do *not* suggest Slack, at least because it's proprietary.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dmitry<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> <br>
> Dmitry<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> > <br>
> > all of that integrated, in a single package. It's super super easy to<br>
> > setup and I love it. Please do not replace this wonder by Slack or one<br>
> > of its clones...<br>
> > <br>
> > Cheers,<br>
> > <br>
> > Thomas Goirand (zigo)<br>
> > <br>
> > <br>
> <br>
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