Hello everyone,
I would like to suggest we set up a Mumble server for Arch Linux staff.
Time and time again, it's been useful for Arch people to come together
for a longer time to hack on various projects or to plan stuff like Arch
Summit. Often times, people use Jitsi for such things. However, I think
Mumble is a more suitable alternative for people hanging out for a
longer time as it:
- allows you to have multiple channels for dedicated topics and you can
see who's currently meeting where
- is more stable than Jitsi in my experience
- has better desktop integration for muting
- has better quality
- can more easily be used over slow networks
The idea is to use mumble-server, put it on the smallest Hetzner VPS and
call it a day. I've been operating Mumble servers for years and it
requires maintenance basically never. We cannot connect it to SSO so
we'll run it like we run the IRC channels: have a password and ask
people to not tell people outside of staff.
We'll have a bunch of moderators (not necessarily devops, just whoever
wants to do create some channels now and then) that can set up channels
and such but apart from that I think we can just run it.
Thoughts?
Sven