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On 04/29/19 17:04, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 4:34 PM Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> wrote: |
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>> In this article on chat services used for OSS: |
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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 as an official method of communication". When I searched, I indeed found https://discordapp.com/invite/gentoo. However, I'd never before heard we were using Discord (and didn't find any mentions of Discord on the -dev or -project mailing lists). |
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>> Is this indeed an official venue? It's not listed on https://gentoo.org/support/ (which does mention IRC). |
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> Based on the #server-info channel, it looks like this server was |
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> created by Cynede. Perhaps they have more information. |
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Considering the reaction that I got when I asked him, I would advise |
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against bothering with contacting cynede about it. Specifically, when I |
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asked on irc the response was serial evasive answers and when I followed |
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up with e-mail the response mentioned the PR project wiki page (without |
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actually linking to it) and expressly requested that I never discuss it |
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with him again, that request was followed up with the same request being |
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made in a public irc channel, just because I was looking for a straight |
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answer and consistently not getting one. Also, I was accused of being a |
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sockpuppet for having asked, despite using my gentoo cloak on freenode |
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at the time. |
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As I was eventually able to discover, PR (or at least some members |
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thereof) describes any site on which the PR project has an account (in |
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the case of discord this type of account is known as a "server") to be |
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an "official" communications channel. These "official" communications |
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channels are not announced when created and do not have projects, even |
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PR sub-projects to tend to them, nor are they listed among the support |
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venues are they are evidently not for user support, as they are |
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evidently intended simply for announcements and such they are merely |
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listed on the PR project wiki page [PR]. |
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[PR] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Public_Relations |
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