[Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-04-15 Thread dr . Sybren A . Stüvel
Hello everybody, Last week during the Homestretch Sprint at the Blender Institute we discussed the visibility of Blender development. One of the things we want to improve is the clarity of decision making and visibility of discussions between developers. Since IRC is getting less and less known to

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-04-29 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
Hi all, A lot of people been testing this for two weeks now, and most developer discussion has already moved to blender.chat. Feedback from developers is very positive. I propose to make it the official Blender chat channel, which would mean: * Update links on blender.org to point to blender.chat

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-04-30 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, Well the irc channel is still active and has advantages as well. Not everyone wishes to move either. Before officially moving over I'd like to see a good agreement in place how to keep the chat channels friendly and troll free. - Are there good options to manage trolls and bans? If s

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-04-30 Thread dr . Sybren A . Stüvel
On 30-04-19 16:18, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > - Are there good options to manage trolls and bans? Yes. We can ban user accounts on Blender.chat, and it's also harder to create a new account on Blender ID than it is on FreeNode (you need email verification). If it turns out to be necessary we can also

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-04-30 Thread Dan McGrath
Hi, Maybe a good feature to have handy is the ability to ban email domains, possibly based on a regex, similar to how the mailing lists and postfix etc allow. Otherwise what happens is people will start to find free mail hosts, aside from Gmail and ones that have fairly good security already, and

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-04-30 Thread Jaume Bellet
hi, just a question about it, is owned and hosted by blender foundation? El dt., 30 d’abr. 2019, 18:49, Dan McGrath va escriure: > Hi, > > Maybe a good feature to have handy is the ability to ban email domains, > possibly based on a regex, similar to how the mailing lists and postfix etc > allo

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-04-30 Thread Dalai Felinto
Hi, > Just a question about it, is owned and hosted by blender foundation? >From the blender.chat landing page: "Blender.Chat is an independent chat server, created to help Blender users to communicate in real-time. Blender.Chat is part of Blender.Community [https://blender.community]."; It is n

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Ge
eff: Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat hi, just a question about it, is owned and hosted by blender foundation? El dt., 30 d’abr. 2019, 18:49, Dan McGrath va escriure: > Hi, > > Maybe a good feature to have handy is the ability to ban email domains, > possib

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-05-01 Thread Pablo Vazquez
> > - is wasting space when not logged in (It can be changed to "condensed > mode" but only when logged in it apears) > Compact view can be set to default if enough people agree. > - is slow: [1] > The version live in production now was right before an improvement that speeds up the load/openin

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-05-01 Thread Ray Molenkamp
On 5/1/2019 5:18 AM, Pablo Vazquez wrote: > You still need to create an account on freenode to chat in blendercoders. You don't, we temporary turned that on a while ago when a botnet was wreaking havoc on freenode, but in general that option is off and any user registered or not can join and tal

Re: [Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

2019-05-07 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
Since the large majority of active and new contributors that I've heard from prefer blender.chat, we are moving ahead with this. If there are issues with moderation or something else we can re-evaluate, but so far it seems to be going well. We now have 9 channel "owners" that can do moderation, wh