Open Stack

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:11 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2021-05-20 21:58:52 +0200 (+0200), Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
> > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 9:41 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org>
> wrote:
> [...]
> > > It seems, from what little I've read, that Matrix servers can
> > > integrate with IRC server networks and bridge channels fairly
> > > seamlessly. If there were a Matrix bridge providing access to the
> > > same channels as people were participating in via IRC (wherever that
> > > happened to be), would that address your concerns?
> >
> > Not quite. It would probably solve the issues *for me*, but I've already
> > solved most of my issues. If we still say "our official communication
> > channel is IRC", that's what people will (try to) use.
> >
> > If we do get an easy "hey, press this button to talk to ironic folks", it
> > may change my mind though. Right now it seems to be IRCCloud, but I'm a
> bit
> > uneasy about recommending everyone to go through some private service,
> > especially about putting something like that in our contributor's guide.
>
> Well, I guess what I'm asking is, if there were a Matrix bridge for
> the #openstack-ironic IRC channel, would that be sufficient for
> Ironic to be able to update its documentation with an "easy button"
> pointed at Matrix instead of IRC, and connect new users on Matrix
> with traditional IRC users for discussion?
>

Probably yes, assuming we can integrate Matrix with NickServ or drop the
NickServ requirement.

Dmitry


> --
> Jeremy Stanley
>


-- 
Red Hat GmbH, https://de.redhat.com/ , Registered seat: Grasbrunn,
Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243,
Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Brian Klemm, Laurie Krebs, Michael
O'Neill
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/attachments/20210521/c6585693/attachment.html>