> >As unfortunate as it may sound, some of this is actually true. The worse > >part is > >if the newcomers want to chat, the official media in Debian for that is IRC, > >which > >is hard to use and setup a bouncer and so on. I don't argue against making > >our tooling > >better. > > Do you seriously think that people who can't be bothered with finding an > IRC Client, pointing it to a server and joining a channel can be > bothered with Debian's other peculiariaties? Will we have to change our > packaging to writing just one file as other distributions do?
I agree with Marc. I would also add that it is not just new contributors who avoid IRC, also many existing DDs have stopped using IRC and moved to Matrix as it offers a richer user experience, or some have even stopped using chat altogether as discussions in Salsa issues are more efficient for single-threaded tasks, and they are archived and searchable.
