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