Re: [PATCH] Add and clarify matrix workarounds.

Alyssa Ross
2020-08-11T18:32:02Z

Philipp <philipp+spectrum@xndr.de> writes:

> I'm a matrix user and fiddled around with the room there a bit. My
> findings were that the room itself seems to be fine, but the pretty
> alias is broken in some way that I don't understand. I came up with two
> ways to join the room via the internal ID and I also took the liberty to
> modify the old workaround a little and made it more precise.
> ---
> participating.html | 14 ++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Thanks for the patch! This should be very helpful. I have a couple of
comments, but I'm happy to just fix them up myself if you prefer.

> diff --git a/participating.html b/participating.html
> index 811fcf4..58f2ff3 100644
> --- a/participating.html
> +++ b/participating.html
> @@ -78,13 +78,15 @@ the web.
> Note for Matrix users
>
>
> -There appears to be an issue with Matrix's IRC bridge that prevents
> -Matrix users from joining #spectrum. The workaround is as follows:
> +There appears to be an issue with Matrix's IRC bridged room that prevents
> +Matrix users from joining the channel with the normal alias #freenode_#spectrum:matrix.org. There are the following workarounds:

Text should be wrapped as it is everywhere else (I wrap at 70 because
it's the default in Emacs but it doesn't have to be exact).

The room name also isn't really a quotation, so probably doesn't really
make sense to be a . (I think I'd just not mark it up at all.)

> +
> +
> + Join the room via it's internal name: /join !ZsIiqZmCTSWHpTQWaw:matrix.org.
> + Join the room via matrix.to link.
> + Ask the bridges appservice to invite you to the room: /msg @appservice-irc:matrix.org !join #spectrum and accept the invite.

The messages probably make more sense as than .
The can also be omitted.

> +
>
> -
> - Post !join #spectrum in your "Freenode IRC Bridge" chat.
> - Accept the invitation you are sent.
> -
>
>
> If you experience this issue, kindly report it to the people who run
> --
> 2.28.0

As I said above, I'm happy to just fix up the patch myself and apply it if
you'd prefer.

One more thing -- this probably makes you a (minor) copyright holder in
this file. Are you happy if I add "SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020
Philipp" to the copyright header at the top of the file? (You can give
me a surname if you want, or not -- up to you.) And would you prefer
your email address be included in the notice, or not (either is fine)?