On 20 May 2015 at 01:19, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
Compounding the problem, I think the IRC support crew feel a bit disempowered: The web irc client is part of the website and thus maintained by the website maintainers.
The website team have added the feature in order to make the community more integrated. I would love to see the irc focused people look after the page so long as the style remains consistent with the website.
The fear I have is that the irc team wish to remove the irc chat plugin because it's inconvenient. Seeing no value in participation from people using the web chat. I'd like to keep irc functionality on the website as it's provides a sense of an unsegregated project. Once we have the mailing lists (and their logs) properly intergrated, the project should feel more like a cohesive whole and not separate channels of communication.
But as Maren has posted, we could do with help too. If there's a good programmer who knows how to integrate IRC into a python based website's backend, then we might be able to use website messages instead of an irc plugin. But that's a pretty big job in itself. There are issues, but I think they're more technical than informational (warnings etc).
Best Regards, Martin Owens