On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 02:20:41PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > 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. And to clarify, I didn't meant the kernel CI project, but only the gitlab CI pipeline for the Linux kernel project. I don't know how tightly integrated the two projects are though. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
