Hey Ronny, On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 8:13 PM Ronny Pfannschmidt <opensource@ronnypfannschmidt.de> wrote:
Im under the impression that most of the communication at chat level has moved to the discord.
Yeah, I've heard something like that. Even tried it out at some point but ended up giving up on that platform since it didn't seem to work well for me, plus I already use a lot of different messaging systems and would rather not add to that pile. There's a lot of people on IRC who deserve to be connected to the PyPA. People are still connecting there periodically and ask questions. I suppose this is because it's easier for many to find a local room on a platform/network that they already use, than to register on others. I've seen somebody connecting to these channels from Matrix and it seems like there's an abandoned room there that used to be connected with Freenode. I was a bit skeptical about Matrix in the past but having seen many communities moving there, including my main work project (Ansible), I've started seeing it as a good replacement for IRC. Plus, it's got a lot of people on the platform already. Also note that some PyPA projects are still actively pointing to IRC, for example, https://pip.pypa.io, https://twine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html and https://wheel.rtfd.io.
That being said, i'm also a matrix user, but it looks like proper and sound bridges will be "quite" a infrastructure tasks and i'm not sure if we have someone willing/able to do that in future.
I was kinda hoping to see a no-maintenance solution. So after some googling, I've found out that Matrix actually already has bridges with IRC: https://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-appservice-irc/latest/usage.html#joining.... Hence, it's already possible to join said channels via #pypa:libera.chat and #pypa-dev:libera.chat. Still, it'd be nice to have a space which groups these (and possibly other) channels and people. It's a zero-maintenance thing, mainly for convenience of those who already use Matrix. -- Warm regards, Sviatoslav Sydorenko