Hi,
I realized there are two IRC channels — #pypa and #pypa-dev. They used to be on
Freenode up until it's been taken over, and are now on Libera.chat.
Looks like they
were bridged into Matrix before that migration but are not accessible
from there anymore.
Matrix is a decentralized communication network and a lot of projects
moved there,
replacing IRC. It's gained a lot of popularity among FOSS projects
already. Also, Gitter
that has chat rooms of many GitHub projects historically, was
converted into a full-fledged
Matrix server. This means that there are a lot of users that already
have a Matrix account
since Matrix allows communicating across servers and, for example,
matrix.org users can
join rooms hosted on gitter.im and vice versa. The individual users
can have end-to-end
encrypted chats across homeservers too.
With this, I'd like to propose a few things:
* Re-bridge the IRC rooms into Matrix (specifically, the matrix.org
homeserver), re-enabling
a substantial number of users to access them and interact with folks
connected over IRC.
* Expose aliases for existing gitter.im-hosted rooms of the PyPA
projects on matrix.org.
* Create a PyPA Matrix Space on matrix.org. This is basically a way to
group rooms and
people of a community.
What will this achieve? Inclusion of people who are less familiar with
IRC, a better
interconnection of multiple chatting spaces, mostly.
Thoughts?
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Warm regards,
Sviatoslav Sydorenko
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