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On 2018-08-01 12:48:39 -0400 (-0400), Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Excerpts from Monty Taylor's message of 2018-08-01 09:58:03 -0500:
> > On 08/01/2018 08:38 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > > On 2018-08-01 09:58:48 -0300 (-0300), Rafael Weingärtner wrote:
> > >> What about Rocket chat instead of Slack? It is open source.
> > >> https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
> > >>
> > >> Monty, what kind of evaluation would you guys need? I might be
> > >> able to help.
> > > 
> > > Consider reading and possibly resurrecting the infra spec for it:
> > > 
> > >      https://review.openstack.org/319506
> > > 
> > > My main concern is how we'll go about authenticating and policing
> > > whatever gateway we set up. As soon as spammers and other abusers
> > > find out there's an open (or nearly so) proxy to a major IRC
> > > network, they'll use it to hide their origins from the IRC server
> > > operators and put us in the middle of the problem.
> > 
> > To be clear -- I was not suggesting running matrix and IRC. I was 
> > suggesting investigating running a matrix home server and the 
> > permanently moving all openstack channels to it.
> > 
> > matrix synapse supports federated identity providers with saml and cas 
> > support implemented. I would imagine we'd want to configure it to 
> > federate to openstackid for logging in to the home server -so that might 
> > involve either adding saml support to openstackid or writing an 
> > openid-connect driver to synapse.
> 
> This matches my expectations. We did talk about supporting a temporary
> bridge to IRC, during the migration, but I don't think we need to run an
> "open" home server to have that.

Yes, I'm not concerned about Matrix specifically. My response was
triggered by Rafael's suggestion of running a Rocket.Chat interface
for users. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley
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