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matrix-org / matrix-ircd

An IRCd implementation backed by Matrix.
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Work with bitlbee? #85

Closed hhirtz closed 2 years ago

hhirtz commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This is more of a long-term project/idea to improve maintainability and the IRC ecosystem. Feel free to close this issue or keep it in the back of your head.

Describe the solution you'd like The idea behind matrix-ircd is a subset of what bitlbee already implements, except bitlbee doesn't implement the matrix protocol yet.

bitlbee works with plugins that implements diverse messaging protocols while being controllable through a IRC gateway. Right now it supports a non-negligible number of protocols, but not matrix. Maybe the code in this project can be split in a library, so that a bitlbee plugin for matrix can emerge more easily.

Describe alternatives you've considered Implement the matrix protocol by hand in a bitlbee plugin.

Additional context Website: https://www.bitlbee.org/ Repo: https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee

jplatte commented 2 years ago

There's already a number of libraries around Matrix protocol usage, in particular Ruma (which I maintain together with a few other ppl) and matrix-rust-sdk (maintained by an Element employee and building on the lower-level Ruma crates).

If this codebase was actually in a maintainable state I would probably have rewritten it to use Ruma for many things, but sadly it is not. There is nothing to be extracted out of it.

madduck commented 2 years ago

@hhirtz I've been toying with that idea for months, and I even have leads that could provide a small amount of funding towards such development. If you know people who would be interested in putting forth a proposal to work on Bitlbee+Matrix, please put them in touch with me. madduck@madduck.net . Note that e2ee would be a required feature.

@jplatte You've had a good go, thank you! Made me feel better because when I tried a couple of years back, I just concluded I was too stupid, so thanks for confirming that it's just me :). If nothing else, then matrix-ircd has given us all the vision that something like this must be possible, and this vision won't die. I would take Irssi over Element any day!

poljar commented 2 years ago

If people aren't aware, there is a toy project that uses the matrix-rust-sdk/ruma to implement an IRC bridge, perhaps that may be an interesting starting point for a new bridge: https://github.com/martinetd/matrirc.