A pure Matrix room for Hackage/Cabal

[Artem Pelenitsyn]

Dear Hackage/Cabal devs,

geekosaur created a purely Matrix room for us and shared the admin bit with
me:

https://matrix.to/#/#hackage:matrix.org

We'd be happy to share more and have you there, at the least!

This is prompted by the announcement earlier today:
https://libera.chat/news/matrix-deportalling
tldr; is that the "portal mode" where you can participate in an IRC-first
room from Matrix transparently will be decommissioned by the end of the
month. Other options are on the table. E.g. I think @fgaz is researching
the "plumbing mode" where you have a pure-Matrix room with a connection to
a IRC-native room like #hackage at libera.chat, but I don't know enough about
it. As far as I understand, this new room I'm announcing here does not
close any doors.

Personally, I'd hope that we all just move to Matrix and forget the IRC
horror where we suggest newcomers to use a paid (!!!) solution like
IRCCloud if they want to address a question to Cabal devs (who only hang
out on IRC) and have a better than 1970s-experience (and a mobile client).

--
Kind regards,
Artem
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