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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Discord
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:24:53
Message-Id: 7d2e6968d764cc07ca9c80d05be65f76c526068a.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Discord by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 19:20 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 > On 4/30/19 7:18 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 22:34 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
4 > > > In this article on chat services used for OSS:
5 > > >
6 > > > https://catfox.life/2019/04/28/keeping-libre-software-accessible-to-all/
7 > > >
8 > > > I was surprised to see a mention of Gentoo as a project that uses "Discord
9 > > > as an official method of communication". When I searched, I indeed found
10 > > > https://discordapp.com/invite/gentoo. However, I'd never before heard we
11 > > > were using Discord (and didn't find any mentions of Discord on the -dev or
12 > > > -project mailing lists).
13 > > >
14 > > > Is this indeed an official venue? It's not listed on
15 > > > https://gentoo.org/support/ (which does mention IRC).
16 > > >
17 > > I've contacted the author and the author refused to change it.
18 > > The claim is that 'PR team runs it', '8 Gentoo developers have admin
19 > > rights', 'i.e. it is sanctioned by the project itself'. I was suggested
20 > > that if it's not official, we should close it instead.
21 >
22 > If that is how it is perceived I'd be in favor of outright closing it at
23 > least
24 >
25
26 I suppose the problem boils down to 'perceived by whom'.
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Discord Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Discord Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Discord "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>