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0 pointspferde1y ago0 comments

Indeed. There can never be just one platform for project communication, because there are different kinds of communication - mostly sorted between synchronous and asynchronous.

So, IRC, Matrix (these can even be interconnected) for synchronous, mailing lists or forums for asynchronous.

And of course issue tracker, where some topical communication can happen as well, but that could completely be covered by mailing lists.

There's no reason to ever have anything non-open in your FOSS project's infrastructure.

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lukan1y ago

"There's no reason to ever have anything non-open in your FOSS project's infrastructure."

Except, that it is easier to set up? What you describe sounds reasonable. But someone needs to set all that up and host it and needs to be trusted etc.

So I guess if many people get involved and do set this up, they would convince the rest of the team to join them. But right now it is just a demand for more work for them.

pferdeOP1y ago

You are correct, of course. If the project leadership does not see a value in using open infrastructure, of course it would look like additional (and unreasonable) demand. It's up to them.

guappa1y ago

Until some company pulls on them what happened to linux to invent git :)

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