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On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 07:24:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 19:20 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> > On 4/30/19 7:18 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 22:34 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: |
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> > > > In this article on chat services used for OSS: |
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> > > > |
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> > > > https://catfox.life/2019/04/28/keeping-libre-software-accessible-to-all/ |
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> > > > |
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> > > > I was surprised to see a mention of Gentoo as a project that uses "Discord |
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> > > > as an official method of communication". When I searched, I indeed found |
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> > > > https://discordapp.com/invite/gentoo. However, I'd never before heard we |
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> > > > were using Discord (and didn't find any mentions of Discord on the -dev or |
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> > > > -project mailing lists). |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Is this indeed an official venue? It's not listed on |
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> > > > https://gentoo.org/support/ (which does mention IRC). |
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> > > > |
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> > > I've contacted the author and the author refused to change it. |
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> > > The claim is that 'PR team runs it', '8 Gentoo developers have admin |
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> > > rights', 'i.e. it is sanctioned by the project itself'. I was suggested |
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> > > that if it's not official, we should close it instead. |
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> > |
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> > If that is how it is perceived I'd be in favor of outright closing it at |
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> > least |
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> > |
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> I suppose the problem boils down to 'perceived by whom'. |
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"What's official" is part of the problem. |
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The PR wiki page DOES list Discord as one of the official channels, |
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along with other non-libre Silos. |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Public_Relations#Social_silos_and_chat |
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A better question is: in keeping with social contract, but balancing |
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that users do want to be on different services, what material should be |
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on each silo? |
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- Announcements (copied to multiple locations) |
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- chat/forum-style support mechanisms for users on those silos |
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I disagree with awilfox's assertion that libre software should not |
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_use_ non-libre silos; I feel a better statement is that libre software |
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should not DEPEND on non-libre silos where possible, and offer libre |
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alternatives (IRC, despite it's problems). |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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