08:05
<ryzokuken>
PSA: Do not use #freenode_#tc39:matrix.org . It is not logged, and does not reliably propagate messages to anywhere in particular
Wasn't it suppose to be the bridge channel?
08:08
<ryzokuken>
I read the notes and folks expressed preference for switching over completely over bridging.
08:09
<ryzokuken>
I agree with the idea, but would people be against setting up a temporary bridge for the course of this meeting?
08:12
<ryzokuken>
(since the majority of discussion would happen on IRC this time still and it might help someone stay connected via Matrix)
08:19
<littledan>
Bridging just doesn't seem to work. I think we have to decide when we want to transition instead
08:19
<ryzokuken>
+1 to transitioning completely once we're ready.
08:20
<ryzokuken>
But I don't think bridging is as imperfect as you might think, it does relay messages across and could work for just these two days.
08:20
<littledan>
we already knew, going into this process, that bridges to and from IRC are unreliable in general. Now, we're seeing that unreliability in practice already.
08:22
<ryzokuken>
Wait, did we set up a bridge at some point? I might be missing something, but which bridge's unreliability is being discussed here?
08:22
<littledan>
some people expected #freenode_#tc39:matrix.org to send messages to TC39's main IRC channel. However, it seems to propagate some people's messages and not others
08:22
<littledan>
so, if you want to communicate with people, using that channel is probably a bad idea
08:23
<ryzokuken>
oh, I wasn't on that channel! Let me look around. Maybe there's something with the configuration?
08:24
<littledan>
all the freenode channels just automatically exist, if I understand correctly
08:24
<littledan>
right, I wasn't on it either, but this is the whole logging discussion that ljharb and I were having on #tc39 IRC
08:24
<ryzokuken>
all the freenode channels just automatically exist, if I understand correctly
oh right, it is the automatic room set up via appservice.
08:24
<jasew>
Yeah that channel/bridge did not work for me at all
08:25
<ryzokuken>
I don't really get appservice's bridged channels
08:25
<ryzokuken>
so I get where you're coming from now.
08:25
<ryzokuken>
when I was talking of bridging, I was talking about setting up an integration/bot that relays messages between this channel and the IRC channel
08:26
<ryzokuken>
without the need for that weird autogenerated channel
08:26
<ryzokuken>
that has worked much smoother in my experience too
08:26
<ryzokuken>
but yeah, if you want to test it out, I could temporarily set it up.
08:26
<littledan>
right, it's like: if someone actually puts in the technical work, maybe we could have a bridge, but until then, we have to tell people explicitly not to use this broken thing
08:27
<littledan>
Rob fell into this trap, and others probably will as well, as they try Matrix
08:27
<ryzokuken>
no no, if you're using Element, you can use the pane on the right-hand side to set up the bridge.
08:27
<ryzokuken>
there are pre-built bridges for IRC and Slack
08:27
<littledan>
well, I dunno, if you know how to do this, then great
08:28
<ryzokuken>
I could set it up temporarily for a little while today maybe?
08:28
<littledan>
sure
08:28
<ryzokuken>
and then we can decide if we want to keep it off?
08:28
<littledan>
sgtm
08:28
<ryzokuken>
could you give me admin role or use the right-side pane to set it up?
08:29
<jasew>
👍
08:35
<littledan>
(should all delegates be admins here? what's the policy?)
08:38
<ryzokuken>
(I don't know if we should give admin permissions to all delegates, we can give a custom role without moderation powers though)
08:38
<ryzokuken>
Ideally only the chairs should have admin and maybe some folks could have moderator permissions.
08:38
<jasew>
Last discussion on that was here https://github.com/tc39/inclusion-group/issues/16#issue-797039045