Implement and support Matrix communication rooms/channels
More and more projects outside but (in)directly involving Alpine Linux are switching to Matrix. There has already been some requests for official Alpine Linux Matrix channels/rooms via social media.
Proposal:
- Implement an Alpine Linux Matrix server based on the second-generation Matrix homeserver Dendrite
- Create rooms and link to its IRC counterpart on matrix.org OFTC IRC bridge (possible also on Libera)
- Setup a moderation team to help support the rooms
- Evaluate how to combat spam
- Define a policy who can have a alpinelinux.org matrix account
Known issues:
- Dendrite is still in beta
- matrix-appservice-irc does currently not support automatic authentication and for some IRC channels its mandatory to communicate