On 23.11.24 21:12, Ayrton wrote:
Hey, Sven.
How are you doing?
I'm curious about how the experiment with Mumble is going.
Are you folks enjoying the experience and planning open registration to other people?
Best!
On November 19, 2024, Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 25.10.24 10:41, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > 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
Since nobody seemed particularly opposed, I went ahead and set up the mumble server. See here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/ merge_requests/886
Once a better solutions comes around, I'm happy to switch to that.
Currently I'm the only admin. People will need to connect with their auto-generated mumble certificates and self-register. I can then assign permissions to people. I don't want to make it complicated so there's no Keycloak integration. There will be a separate mail to staff so people know how to connect.
Sven
Hey Ayrton (please bottom-post), It's going quite well, I think. There are people in there most days and there are water-cooler-talk style conversations that pop up now and then. I like it! I don't think Mumble is well-equipped for moderating open registrations. It's more probable that we'll do an invite-based system so that trusted and responsible folks can come and hang out. It should be a good middle-ground for the time being. Cheers, Sven