Re: Should we do something with #git-devel on Freenode?

From: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date: May 27, 2021, 17:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7e9683aee2c0fea2ff77b82bfa547e15@jk.gs>
In-Reply-To: <YK6o/j7P0JIGW0Q0@alpha>

Here's a bit of an update on the situation.

freenode has, indeed, scorched the earth by destroying more than 700 channels, simply for mentioning Libera in the topic (before they even added a rule that forbids this). I was willing to wait and see how the "new" freenode was going to pan out, but with stuff like this happening I don't see that as an option anymore. Basically I expect freenode to keep destroying community with no prior notice whenever they feel like it, and who wants to stay in a place like that?

On 26.05.2021 22:01, Kevin Daudt wrote:

> In the mean time, the ircops on libera helped us to register #git there
> pending the official namespace registration from Junio (they have a
> backlog, so they are working through that).

#git on Libera is already picking up steam, though the numbers aren't quite on the same level yet. However, an arbitrary quorum of regulars has decided that it's time to throw the switch.

* We've moved the gitinfo bot to Libera (which required a fair bit of
   code rewriting to support the differences between their respective
   ircds);
* The IRC logger has moved;
* The old channel's topic has a link to https://gitirc.eu/fnmove.html
   which explains the situation.

I expect that if anyone from freenode staff notices this, the channel on freenode will get destroyed soon after...