[Bf-committers] Potentially moving from IRC to Blender.Chat

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi all,

A lot of people been testing this for two weeks now, and most developer
discussion has already moved to blender.chat. Feedback from developers is
very positive.

I propose to make it the official Blender chat channel, which would mean:
* Update links on blender.org to point to
blender.chat/channel/blender-coders as the main channel, with IRC as
secondary.
* Weekly meetings would take place on blender.chat.
* The IRC channel would remain but clearly point to blender.chat in the
topic as the main channel.
* Blender developers can still use IRC, but it's optional and over time
likely few will remain active there.

If anyone has objections or concerns, please let us know. If not, we can
confirm this officially.

Thanks,
Brecht.



On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 6:30 PM dr. Sybren A. Stüvel <sybren at stuvel.eu>
wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> Last week during the Homestretch Sprint at the Blender Institute we
> discussed the visibility of Blender development. One of the things we
> want to improve is the clarity of decision making and visibility of
> discussions between developers. Since IRC is getting less and less known
> to new developers, we thought we might move the blendercoders channel to
> blender.chat (which is a web-based chat system).
>
> Of course we first want to have a few weeks to try it out and see if we
> really like it. So, head over to
> https://blender.chat/channel/blender-coders, log in with your Blender ID
> account, and chat away!
>
> If you have any issues, please let me know in a private mail or via
> blender.chat.
>
> Just for clarity: we will only move away from IRC if there is
> considerable support for this move.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Sybren A. Stüvel
>
> https://stuvelfoto.nl/
> https://stuvel.eu/
>
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