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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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> > > 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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> > > 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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> > 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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> 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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I suppose the problem boils down to 'perceived by whom'. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |