On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:53:38PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote: > On 29/02/2024 12:41, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:19:19PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:10:16PM +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote: > > > >>> Of course. You're also welcome to join the #kernelci channel on libera.chat. > > > >> Isn't that a bit pointless if it's no the main IM channel ? > > > > It *was* the original channel and still gets some usage (mostly started > > by me admittedly since I've never joined slack for a bunch of reasons > > that make it hassle), IIRC the Slack was started because there were some > > interns who had trouble figuring out IRC and intermittent connectivity > > but people seem to have migrated. > > In fact it was initially created for the members of the Linux > Foundation project only, which is why registration is moderated > for emails that don't have a domain linked to a member (BTW not > any Google account will just work e.g. @gmail.com is moderated, > only @google.com for Google employees isn't). > > And yes IRC is the "least common denominator" chat platform. > Maybe having a bridge between the main Slack channel and IRC > would help. If the gitlab CI pipeline proposal wants to be considered for inclusion in the kernel, I think it needs to switch to a free software solution for its *main* communication channels. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart