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Anastasia Klimchuk has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/flashrom/+/75192 )
Change subject: doc: Add info about Discord channel ......................................................................
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Thomas, but makefile was also there forever :P
This case is even simpler because I am obviously not deleting anything.
From my observations, it is pretty hard to get people to hang out in irc continuously, and mostly because it is not easy to use as a tool. Discord is much easier to use (by modern standards). And I think especially our developers community is losing quite a lot because of that, we can benefit a lot from having a real-time channel which gathers active developers. And where is easy to leave, re-join, and read the history of what happened without you. We don't have a large dev community, but maybe 10-20 active or a little active people - and most of them are not on IRC.
For the users perspective, I think it's a good feature if you can join "users & troubleshooting" channel and search the history, because maybe your question was asked before.
Discord allows creating sub-channels, if needed (there is one #flashrom currently, but more can be created if needed).
Returning back to comparison with makefile and meson, it is a good comparison because it shows that the right tool is not necessarily the one which was there forever. I think real time chat room is equally important for dev community.
And as I said, I am not deleting anything.
Thank you for reading my message, as you see I have an opinion about this subject! Please tell me what you think.
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Anastasia Klimchuk (Code Review)