[geos-devel] Killing Slack room ?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 07:44:50PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 10:15:07AM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > On Jan 5, 2022, at 9:57 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> > > 
> > > After upgrading the Matrix room versino from 1 to 9 we lost the Slack
> > > bridge, and it I'm having trouble adding it back (glitches).
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have problems with just removing references to that room
> > > from the website ( http://libgeos.org/development/ ) and only keeping
> > > the Matrix room ( https://matrix.to/#/#geos:osgeo.org ) ?
> > 
> > Well if it's never going to work or whatnot, I guess, but surprise,
> > I'd rather use the osgeo slack and deprecate the matrix.
> 
> I take it as a vote for NOT killing it, but do you realize PostGIS
> already advertises Matrix (and the bridged IRC) as the official chat platforms ?
> https://postgis.net/support/
> 
> I'm not sure if the Slack bridge can be made to work, for GEOS, some
> people in the #matrix IRC channel said it may be a matter of time
> (timeouts kicking in) but I'm not sure it'll ever happen.

The bridge is back.

Postmortem: upgrade of the Matrix room created a _new_ room and I was
unable to bridge the new room becuase a bridge was still up in the
_old_ room. Dropping the bridge from the old made it possible to set
up the bridge in the _new_ one. Fixed both GEOS and PostGIS channels.

--strk;