Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-26 Thread Florian Bruhin
Hi, On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 04:17:49PM +0200, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > While Freenode won't shut down tomorrow morning, this still raises some > questions whether Qt wants to keep its community there or move to another > network. Well, turns out it did shut down some channels e

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-24 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 07:04:01AM +, Eike Ziller wrote: > > I hear will be forgotten a few days later. If I hear something important, I > > might > > take a note, in an explicit, extra step. Under no circumstances I will be > > able to > > "remember" something someone said in a room I wasn't

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-22 Thread Aleix Pol
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 6:09 PM Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > > On 21/05/2021 16:26, Aleix Pol wrote: > > I'd say embracing matrix can only be a positive iteration for the Qt > > project. I've personally been in #qt-labs for about a year through our > > matrix servers and it has serve

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Elvis Stansvik
Den fre 21 maj 2021 kl 20:25 skrev Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development : > > On 21/05/2021 20:03, Tuukka Turunen wrote: > > > > Before simply voting for new irc provider, I would still prefer to have > > the QtCS discussion on the topic. > > > > We should also discuss and define what is the intention

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
On 21/05/2021 20:03, Tuukka Turunen wrote: Before simply voting for new irc provider, I would still prefer to have the QtCS discussion on the topic. We should also discuss and define what is the intention / intentions of the channels, because this can affect the choice. I am NOT proposing

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Tuukka Turunen
Lähettäjä: Development käyttäjän Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development puolesta Lähetetty: perjantaina, toukokuuta 21, 2021 7:07 ip. Vastaanottaja: development@qt-project.org Aihe: Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC On 21/05/2021 14:40, Cristián Maureira-Fr

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
On 21/05/2021 16:26, Aleix Pol wrote: I'd say embracing matrix can only be a positive iteration for the Qt project. I've personally been in #qt-labs for about a year through our matrix servers and it has served its purpose. You are welcome to join KDE's matrix server and give it a go. If Qt deci

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
On 21/05/2021 14:40, Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote: @Giuseppe regarding the consensus, should we do a thread for voting the movement to libera only? or you think we could agree differently of doing the move. Yes, I'm afraid that I screwed this one up, apologies :( I'll guess I'll start a new

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Jason H
> >> I would like to get back to doing more of our development discussions out > >> in the open > >> (like it should be), but right now IRC is not something I want to go back > >> to for > >> that. > > > > I also think that having development related discussions in internal Teams > > channels >

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Aleix Pol
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 8:46 PM Carl Schwan wrote: > > Le jeudi, mai 20, 2021 2:18 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development > a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > On 20/05/2021 13:47, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 19, 2021, at 8:16 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > > > > > > > -

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Cristián Maureira-Fredes
On 5/20/21 8:46 PM, Carl Schwan wrote: Le jeudi, mai 20, 2021 2:18 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development a écrit : [snip] Lacking some formal voting infrastructure, how do we take this vote? I'd say, KISS: please reply to this email and express your preference. I believe the bes

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Robert Löhning
Am 20.05.21 um 20:57 schrieb André Pönitz: On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:59:31AM +, Andy Nichols wrote: The chat channels are fragmented these days. There’s the Qt discord channels, QtMob on Slack, Qt and Advanced C++ on Telegram. Are any of these channels endorsed by the Qt project? The IR

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-21 Thread Eike Ziller
> On May 20, 2021, at 20:57, André Pönitz wrote: > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:59:31AM +, Andy Nichols wrote: The chat channels are fragmented these days. There’s the Qt discord channels, QtMob on Slack, Qt and Advanced C++ on Telegram. >> >>> Are any of these channels en

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Tobias Hunger
On Thu, May 20, 2021, 21:03 André Pönitz wrote: > Works as designed. Freenode never endorsed public logging. > > Chat is for ephemeral contents, like normal speech. > I always chat as it it was logged, even in IRC: It is easy to log, so people are logging. There may not be "official" logs, but t

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Hello, Il 20/05/21 20:46, Carl Schwan ha scritto: I believe the best course of action would be to wait a bit until KDE moves its freenode presence to libera (should happen soon). Is this decision already taken? I didn't find an outcome of the discussion on kde-community. And then Qt can m

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread André Pönitz
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:59:31AM +, Andy Nichols wrote: > >> The chat channels are fragmented these days. There’s the Qt discord > >> channels, > >> QtMob on Slack, Qt and Advanced C++ on Telegram. > > > Are any of these channels endorsed by the Qt project? The IRC channels > > are, that

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread André Pönitz
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 08:34:50PM +0200, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > On 19/05/2021 19:31, André Pönitz wrote: > > > > And now since we are on it: Can someone please remove the +r from #qt ? > > All other #qt-* channels at FreeNode are fine without. > > You could just ask... on IR

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Carl Schwan
Le jeudi, mai 20, 2021 2:18 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development a écrit : > Hi, > > On 20/05/2021 13:47, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > > > On Wed, May 19, 2021, at 8:16 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > > > > > - there's no registration required; > > > - the $newthing has proven st

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Alexandru Croitor
> On 20. May 2021, at 19:20, Robert Löhning wrote: > > Am 20.05.21 um 15:18 schrieb Alexandru Croitor: >> Hi, >> In my opinion this is a good opportunity to move away from IRC to something >> more modern. >> (..) >> Matrix is open source, has Qt based clients, has modern features, and if >> pu

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Robert Löhning
Am 20.05.21 um 15:18 schrieb Alexandru Croitor: Hi, In my opinion this is a good opportunity to move away from IRC to something more modern. (..) Matrix is open source, has Qt based clients, has modern features, and if push comes to shove, can bridge with IRC. Hi Alexandru, could you plea

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Tuukka Turunen
nt@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC > Anyways: this isn't the topic of this thread. The topic of this thread is > what to do with the currently officially endorsed IRC channels on Freenode. Sure it is. My vote is to do nothing (stay on Freen

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Edward Welbourne
On 20/05/2021 13:47, Alejandro Exojo wrote: >> Also, I don't understand how not having to register can be a >> requirement at all, given that one needs to register, sometimes >> multiple times, to use some of the other official channels. E.g. to >> participate in the mailing list I of course need t

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Andy Nichols
> Anyways: this isn't the topic of this thread. The topic of this thread is > what to do with the currently officially endorsed IRC channels on Freenode. Sure it is. My vote is to do nothing (stay on Freenode), and let our IRC presence continue its fade into obscurity. Then replace it with som

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Jason H
For mode detail about the situation, I consulted: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-korea-crown-prince-takeover https://www.kline.sh/ In the past my use of IRC was limited by firewalls. If at all possible, whatever is moved to, I would request be web-accessable (https). F

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Il 20/05/21 15:42, Alexandru Croitor ha scritto: Does this require the Qt project to host a Matrix server/entry point, or do you mean to ask KDE to use theirs? I was thinking of asking them to use theirs. You know the follow up question: what's in there for KDE? :-) Thanks, -- Giuseppe D'Ang

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Il 20/05/21 13:59, Andy Nichols ha scritto: Are any of these channels endorsed by the Qt project? The IRC channels are, that's why I'm raising the question here. They probably should be. We list those in our "Online Communities" wiki. I'm active on the Qt Discord and its quite lively and inte

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Alexandru Croitor
> On 20. May 2021, at 15:38, Giuseppe D'Angelo > wrote: > > Il 20/05/21 15:18, Alexandru Croitor ha scritto: >> Given that KDE is using Matrix, I think it seems like a natural idea to join >> their network, which would bring us closer and hopefully facilitate more >> collaboration. I don't e

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Il 20/05/21 15:18, Alexandru Croitor ha scritto: Given that KDE is using Matrix, I think it seems like a natural idea to join their network, which would bring us closer and hopefully facilitate more collaboration. I don't expect a few additional qt channels will overload their network. Does

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Alexandru Croitor
> On 20. May 2021, at 15:18, Alexandru Croitor wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 20. May 2021, at 14:18, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development >> wrote: >> >> Lacking some formal voting infrastructure, how do we take this vote? >> I'd say, KISS: please reply to this email and express your preference. > >

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Alexandru Croitor
Hi, > On 20. May 2021, at 14:18, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development > wrote: > > Lacking some formal voting infrastructure, how do we take this vote? > I'd say, KISS: please reply to this email and express your preference. In my opinion this is a good opportunity to move away from IRC to someth

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Andy Nichols
>> I did notice that the Godot (open source Game >> engine) community have recently officially moved there development >> chat to Discord from Freenode (IRC) and The server is very active and >> vibrant. > I believe only their development and contribution channel was /moved/, and > they use a

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Jimi Huotari
On Thu, 20 May 2021 11:59:31 + Andy Nichols wrote: > I did notice that the Godot (open source Game > engine) community have recently officially moved there development chat > to Discord from Freenode (IRC) and The server is very active and vibrant. I believe only their development and contri

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Hi, On 20/05/2021 13:47, Alejandro Exojo wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2021, at 8:16 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: * there's no registration required; * the $newthing has proven stability, staff, resources, etc., and won't disappear in a few months/years; * ... then anything is fine

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Andy Nichols
ment On Behalf Of Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:10 PM To: Lorn Potter Cc: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC Hi, On 20/05/2021 12:02, lj p wrote: > The chat channels are fragmented these days. There’s the

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Alejandro Exojo
On Wed, May 19, 2021, at 8:16 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > * there's no registration required; > * the $newthing has proven stability, staff, resources, etc., and won't > disappear in a few months/years; > * ... > > then anything is fine. > > All other things being equal, the

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Hi, On 20/05/2021 12:02, lj p wrote: The chat channels are fragmented these days. There’s the Qt discord channels, QtMob on Slack, Qt and Advanced C++ on Telegram. Are any of these channels endorsed by the Qt project? The IRC channels are, that's why I'm raising the question here. Not to men

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-20 Thread lj p
> On 20 May 2021, at 12:17 am, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development > wrote: > [snip] The chat channels are fragmented these days. There’s the Qt discord channels, QtMob on Slack, Qt and Advanced C++ on Telegram. Not to mention freenode ones, that no one uses anymore, or the internal Qt Company

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Kai Köhne
> -Original Message- > From: Jason H > Subject: Re: RE: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC > > > > Can we agree to keep the bashing out of this channel? > > You raise important questions. First, what is "bashing", and where is it > ap

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
On 19/05/2021 22:41, Tuukka Turunen wrote: While many are still somewhat tuned in on the IRC channel it is clear that the traffic is very modest. It may be that having another system would work better, or perhaps the mailing lists and other available channels are adequate for the need. To say

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
On 19/05/2021 22:12, Jason H wrote: where is it appropriate? Possibly, not in a thread that tries to talk about the Qt community presence on IRC...? Thanks, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dang...@kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company Tel. France +33

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Tuukka Turunen
-project.org Aihe: Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC > Can we agree to keep the bashing out of this channel? You raise important questions. First, what is "bashing", and where is it appropriate? Or, as I see my behavior, where is being critical of Digia appropriate?

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Jason H
> Can we agree to keep the bashing out of this channel? You raise important questions. First, what is "bashing", and where is it appropriate? Or, as I see my behavior, where is being critical of Digia appropriate? As a long-time Qt user (first commercial license was for 3.3.3) I've seen it go

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
On 19/05/2021 19:31, André Pönitz wrote: And now since we are on it: Can someone please remove the +r from #qt ? All other #qt-* channels at FreeNode are fine without. You could just ask... on IRC :-) It was done to prevent spam. #qt gets periodically rallied by spambots, which tend to ignor

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 2021 May 19, at 18:21, Jason H wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 12:30, Jason H wrote: >>> >>> Aren't all the kids these days moving to Discord? >> >> Discord is not free software, so it does not align well with a free >> software project. > > QtCentre is not free software >

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
On 19/05/2021 18:21, Jason H wrote: QtCentre is not free software forum.qt.io is not free software What is the point of having alignment on the license of the service with the project license? Shouldn't the service be able to pick the best (for various definitions of "best") software for provi

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread André Pönitz
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 05:03:24PM +0200, Ulf Hermann wrote: > > Rather than just move to another IRC server, we should really take > > this as an opportunity to move to another chat service as the > > official Qt Project chat. IRC has a terrible user experience and is > > not at all accessible fo

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread André Pönitz
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 02:37:26PM +, Andy Nichols wrote: > Hello, > > Rather than just move to another IRC server, we should really take > this as an opportunity to move to another chat service as the official > Qt Project chat. > > IRC has a terrible user experience and is not at all access

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Kai Köhne
> -Original Message- > From: Development On Behalf Of Jason H > Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:26 > To: giuseppe.dang...@kdab.com > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC > > Aren't all the kids thes

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Jason H
> Hi! > > On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 12:30, Jason H wrote: > > > > Aren't all the kids these days moving to Discord? > > Discord is not free software, so it does not align well with a free > software project. QtCentre is not free software forum.qt.io is not free software What is the point of having

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Kyle Edwards via Development
On 5/19/21 11:57 AM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Discord is not free software, so it does not align well with a free software project. +1 Kyle ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listin

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 12:30, Jason H wrote: > > Aren't all the kids these days moving to Discord? Discord is not free software, so it does not align well with a free software project. ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https:/

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mercredi, mai 19, 2021 5:24 PM, Shawn Rutledge a écrit : > > On 2021 May 19, at 17:14, Carl Schwan wrote: > > > > Le mercredi, mai 19, 2021 4:49 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development > > a écrit : > > > > > On 19/05/2021 16:37, Andy Nichols wrote: > > > > > > > Rather than just move to ano

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Jason H
.) > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 10:49 AM > From: "Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development" > To: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC > > On 19/05/2021 16:37, Andy Nichols wrote: > > Rather than just move t

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On 2021 May 19, at 17:14, Carl Schwan mailto:c...@carlschwan.eu>> wrote: Le mercredi, mai 19, 2021 4:49 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development mailto:development@qt-project.org>> a écrit : On 19/05/2021 16:37, Andy Nichols wrote: Rather than just move to another IRC server, we should really t

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Carl Schwan
Le mercredi, mai 19, 2021 4:49 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development a écrit : > On 19/05/2021 16:37, Andy Nichols wrote: > > > Rather than just move to another IRC server, we should really take this as > > an opportunity to move to another chat service as the official Qt Project > > chat. IRC

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Ulf Hermann
Rather than just move to another IRC server, we should really take this as an opportunity to move to another chat service as the official Qt Project chat. IRC has a terrible user experience and is not at all accessible for people who haven't been using it for decades like many of us. It does us a

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
On 19/05/2021 16:37, Andy Nichols wrote: Rather than just move to another IRC server, we should really take this as an opportunity to move to another chat service as the official Qt Project chat. IRC has a terrible user experience and is not at all accessible for people who haven't been using

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 11:18, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > > Hi, > > Freenode, the network that hosts our IRC communities, is in the middle > of some important community changes. TL;DR: most of the volunteer staff > resigned in protest with what looks like a sell-out of the network a

Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Andy Nichols
lf Of Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 4:18 PM To: development@qt-project.org Subject: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC Hi, Freenode, the network that hosts our IRC communities, is in the middle of some important community changes. TL;DR: most of the

[Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

2021-05-19 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Hi, Freenode, the network that hosts our IRC communities, is in the middle of some important community changes. TL;DR: most of the volunteer staff resigned in protest with what looks like a sell-out of the network and its user data. You can read some more details here: https://www.kline.sh