On 2024-10-25 11:12:19 (+0200), Jelle van der Waa wrote:
Hi,
On 25/10/2024 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
Mumble lacks video which can be really nice as one can share their screen or actually visually see someone talking.
So I think it is worth it to go the extra mile and propose a solution in that direction. Matrix is as far as I know can do P2P video calls one on one and is working on multi person video meetings. My preference would be to have integrated there, question arises if we can easily invite outsiders.
Hm, that doesn't help the situation at this point in time though. The element.io announcement about easy-to-use and scaleable video conferencing [1] is from 2022, is invite only (is it still?) and appears to suffer from the same limitations as webRTC (the connections do not scale for "larger" groups). Mumble is something that we can use right now (albeit without video conferencing) without issue on all platforms and is very low maintenance (in comparison to jitsi, matrix with jitsi [2] and/or waiting for matrix to have proper conference calls). While I agree, that we should long-term strive for something that can do video conferencing as well, I see no reason to not use mumble in the meantime (especially as it seems to help in work coordination across projects). Best, David [1] https://element.io/blog/introducing-native-matrix-voip-with-element-call/ [2] https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/blob/develop/docs/jitsi.md -- https://sleepmap.de