[Pkg-xmpp-devel] Shall we have an Debian XMPP chat room (MUC)?

[Boris Pek]

Hi,

>>  Once it was added to Planet Debian [2] a lot of new members have
>>  been joined to team group chat.
>
> I wonder, whether should be an XMPP chat room (MUC), too?

Simple answer is no.

At least not with the current level of activity of maintainers and
users of our packages. More over I am seriously doubt that the time
of replies there will be much less than now via emails.

> Pros:
>  - XMPP users can reach and discuss with us easily

Psi+ users usually prefer to contact me directly. More over they
do this mostly via email. This shows the popularity of XMPP even
among XMPP users...

As for other XMPP clients and servers I would hardly may help users
with them.

>  - eat your own cat food: package XMPP stuff and use it

Hey! I use my XMPP related packages daily! =)
And as I see you use Gajim daily as well.
What other client programs need additional attention from us?

>  - it fits the same needs as the Matrix room for Matrix users
>  - one cannot have enough chat rooms anyway :-)

More group chats, more distracted factors... =(

> Cons:
>  - Debian uses mainly email and IRC for everything - (how) can
>    an IRC users join the XMPP chat room?

I have not faced with such task before. Probably there are solutions
for this using IRC or XMPP bots. But is it really needed?

>  - at this point in time I would feel uneasy to host the MUC on
>    vogler.d.o, so we would need a reliable third party service

Could you describe more verbose why our XMPP server at vogler.d.o
could not be used for this?

BTW why rtc at conference.d.o has restriction to connections only
from DDs accounts? What is the purpose of that group chat at all?

>  - do we have enough human power to moderate it? I have doubts

Personally I will not be able to spend my time for moderation.
Sorry.

Best wishes,
Boris