[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] Developer support channels

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 06:45:02PM +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 18:42, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Nyall,
> >
> > On Mon, 20. Sep 2021 at 16:35:57 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > > On this note, I would also love to see some form of contributor-focused text
> > > chat room for QGIS contributors. While there's plenty of chat rooms around
> > > for QGIS users, these tend to attract toward "how do I do this in QGIS"
> > > questions.
> >
> > The IRC channel #qgis still exists.  It used to be that.  Before it was
> > "replaced" by several "better" alternatives - none of which ever really took
> > off, but it fragmented and destroyed #qgis.  Not much life left there -
> > although it looks full of people (most gated from Matrix).
> 
> That's a good point. I'd honestly prefer some channel which is
> somewhat gated however, just to weed out the end-user support
> questions. From my experience the irc channel (and matrix and its
> linked channels) did get quite of lot of these "can anyone help me
> with my data?... hello?.... anyone?.... *disconnects*" activity :P

The Matrix support should make the *disconnects* issue lighter, in
that the disconnected user should get the backlog kept by her Matrix
homeserver, so could read answers upon re-connecting.

--strk;