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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:20:40 +0200
From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] kci-gitlab: Introducing GitLab-CI Pipeline for
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On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:53:38PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
> On 29/02/2024 12:41, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:19:19PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:10:16PM +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> > 
> >>> Of course. You're also welcome to join the #kernelci channel on libera.chat.
> > 
> >> Isn't that a bit pointless if it's no the main IM channel ?
> > 
> > It *was* the original channel and still gets some usage (mostly started
> > by me admittedly since I've never joined slack for a bunch of reasons
> > that make it hassle), IIRC the Slack was started because there were some
> > interns who had trouble figuring out IRC and intermittent connectivity
> > but people seem to have migrated.
> 
> In fact it was initially created for the members of the Linux
> Foundation project only, which is why registration is moderated
> for emails that don't have a domain linked to a member (BTW not
> any Google account will just work e.g. @gmail.com is moderated,
> only @google.com for Google employees isn't).
> 
> And yes IRC is the "least common denominator" chat platform.
> Maybe having a bridge between the main Slack channel and IRC
> would help.

If the gitlab CI pipeline proposal wants to be considered for inclusion
in the kernel, I think it needs to switch to a free software solution
for its *main* communication channels.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart