Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

[Matthew Hodgson <matthew matrix org>]

On 15/02/2020 01:28, Zander Brown wrote:

> > This has now been fixed as of 00:50 GMT or so.
> Around the same time people seem to have suddenly left rooms and/or had
> permissions stripped

Yes, that was the bridge restarting to flush out the problems in #gnome. 
things should now be back in sync.  Meanwhile we're working on a next 
gen of the bridge which lets it restart without dropping the IRC 
connections: https://github.com/Half-Shot/irc-conntrack

Meanwhile, we've gone and published the IRC room list as the public room 
directory on https://gnome.riot.im.

Other than GNOME branding and a sensible home somewhere in 
https://*.gnome.org, the dedicated server & bridge should now be good to go.

In terms of performance, it's unrecognisably snappy.  From my user as 
@matthew:gnome.org, i see ~50ms to IRC and back again.  (I had graphs to 
prove it, but the mailing list moderation kicked in due to the images.)

Please let us know if you have further problems with the bridge. We want 
Matrix to work well for everyone using it, and the IRC bridge (when run 
on a non-overloaded server) should work really well.


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Matthew Hodgson
Matrix.org