Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo on Discord

[Matthew Thode]

On 19-04-30 19:24:45, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 19:20 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> > On 4/30/19 7:18 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2019-04-29 at 22:34 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> > > > In this article on chat services used for OSS:
> > > >
> > > > https://catfox.life/2019/04/28/keeping-libre-software-accessible-to-all/
> > > >
> > > > 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).
> > > >
> > > > Is this indeed an official venue? It's not listed on
> > > > https://gentoo.org/support/ (which does mention IRC).
> > > >
> > > I've contacted the author and the author refused to change it.
> > > The claim is that 'PR team runs it', '8 Gentoo developers have admin
> > > rights', 'i.e. it is sanctioned by the project itself'.  I was suggested
> > > that if it's not official, we should close it instead.
> >
> > If that is how it is perceived I'd be in favor of outright closing it at
> > least
> >
>
> I suppose the problem boils down to 'perceived by whom'.
>

Ya, the claim as official came up a while ago, I thought it was dealt
with.  I'm one of the devs with 'admin' rights it seems, I can change
the description and server invite background (both have official in it).
I'd change the description to something like the following.

Discord server for Gentoo Linux, a free operating system based or Linux or FreeBSD.

Though maybe we should use the language we used in the nitrokey
announcment for how to descript Gentoo :D

It does not look like I have the ability to remove the server entirely,
as was suggested elsewhere.  I don't think that's a good idea in any
case.

One thing that may help is to have multiple levels of control defined.

Official   - as K_F described before, website and email announce lists.
Controled  - controled / moderated by Gentoo pr / comrel
             This would be other email lists / aliases / facebook / etc
unofficial - not activly moderated by Gentoo pr / comrel

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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)