The meeting was conducted on #meta channel of the Make WordPress Slack and partially on Matrix in the room #meta:community.wordpress.org.
We first recapped a few items around the setup that we’re exploring:
- We have a Matrix server for the WordPress project at community.wordpress.org.
- Instead of having to create a new account at that Matrix server, we’ll want to use SSO (“single-sign on”) and allow you to use your WordPress.org account. This is possible through OpenID Connect (OIDC) and a WordPress plugin that we created, called OpenID Connect Server.
- To make joining WordPress meetings easier, we’ve developed another plugin that sports a Gutenberg block that hosts an in-page Matrix client, called Chatrix. The idea being, that we can have pages on the Make P2s that are dedicated to a specific room on the Matrix server where the meeting will take place.
So for example, for meta meetings, there is a Chatrix block installed on https://make.wordpress.org/meta/chat/ which points to the Matrix room where these meetings occur. Unfortunately, at the time of testing, the Chatrix block was broken for people who first started using it. We are working on a bugfix on Github.
Still it is possible to experience the above setup by joining the room via another client (and this is one thing that sets Matrix apart from Slack: you have multiple clients to choose from), for example Element at https://app.element.io/
When you click “Sign In” there, you’ll arrive at a screen where you can change the server to community.wordpress.org. Then you can continue using the Single-Sign On flow: you are redirected to WordPress.org and asked to allow the Matrix server to confirm your WordPress.org username to log in. After this you arrive logged in to the Matrix server where we have already set your display name and profile picture.
Over at the Matrix server, we looked at the second agenda item, a test-migrated Slack channel on the Matrix server:
Mentions and threads show the same way in Matrix as in Slack. For example, here is a screenshot of a Slack conversation migrated to Matrix:
In the next meeting we’ll take a look how a Slack bridge would help make the move from Slack to Matrix easier.
As already mentioned in the agenda post, @psrpinto and I (@akirk) will be at WCEU (including Contributor day) where we’d love to discuss Matrix, so if you’re there and see us, please talk us up!