Recognizing Matrix as an official channel

[Matthias Apitz]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:20:45 +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 17.08.2020 21:36, Farhan Khan wrote:
>
>> I apologize for double-posting, it appears my phone's email 
>> client removed the spacing. Resending from the web-client.
>> 
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am a long-time IRC user. I see that FreeBSD recognizes the 
>> EFnet and FreeNode channels as official, as listed here: 
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels. While it continues to 
>> serve the community, there are major limitations and I feel 
>> that it might be time to migrate towards a replacement.
>> 
>> The "market" of communication going forward is clearly 
>> shifting towards more feature-ful protocols, such as Slack, 
>> Discord or Gitter. The only open-source and viable option in 
>> this class systems that I see Matrix. There is an active 
>> FreeBSD channel located at #FreeBSD:matrix.org, along with a 
>> few other BSD-related channels.
>> 
>> I propose making this an officially recognized channel for 
>> FreeBSD communication and encouraging migration from IRC to 
>> Matrix.
>
> What is Matrix's level of support for FreeBSD?
> Is there native FreeBSD client?
> Is there native FreeBSD server?
>

Why we would need this at all? Aren't mailing lists with archives not good enough, or even better?

matthias (FreeBSD since 2.2.7)




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