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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 07:55:55AM +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> On 9/20/21 10:45 AM, 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
> 
> I would be ok with both IRC, but I think a #qgis-dev channel on either matrix.org or matrix.osgeo.org would do.
> 
> There are proper matrix clients for web and phones ( even for Linux phones ;-) ).

I love Matrix but I've to say I still don't have a proper console
client (used to have a weechat plugin but it broke and was never able
to recover from it) so a bridge to IRC would still be great to me.

I'm starting to think that adding an IRC server to the OSGeo
infrastructure could be a good idea :)

> And we could create a invite only group, setting the bar to say 1 accepted Pull (whatever qgis repo) Request or so?
> Then we could invite recent github committers, and also tell everybody via the dev list to apply for the invite (and show a link to an accepted PR)? This makes it not a 'friends'-only list, but a little more objective?

Are you afraid of spam that you want the group to be private ?

--strk;