[ovs-dev] Moving of the primary #openvswitch channel to irc.libera.chat ?

Flavio Leitner fbl at sysclose.org
Thu May 20 12:46:01 UTC 2021


On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:22:58PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:03:57PM +0200, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Taking into account some very unhealthy things that happened recently
> > with FreeNode network and resigning of lots of its stuff [1], we
> > probably need to discuss if Open vSwitch project wants to change the
> > IRC server for a primary #openvswitch channel.  User's data is the
> > main concern, IIUC, as it's unclear what the new management will
> > do with the network.
> > 
> > The main alternative now seems to be the Libera.Chat [2] where most of
> > the former FreeNode stuff.
> > 
> > Some projects already announced [3][4] movement to Libera.Chat.  Others
> > are discussing the possibility [5].
> > 
> > So, I think, it make sense to discuss the future of #openvswitch
> > channel too.  Any thoughts?
> > 
> > Will we have an OVN meeting on a different server tomorrow?
> 
> Thanks for sending such a detailed message (with footnotes!).
> I think I support the move.  I have already registered the #openvswitch
> channel on libera.chat (and copied the topic across).

Great! Thanks.


> I'm going to log in on both servers tomorrow but I suggest that we
> transition to libera.chat after tomorrow's meeting, since this is pretty
> short notice and I think that most of us (including me) are only light
> users of IRC.
> 
> Also, I suspect that the infrastructure for recording meetings has not
> yet moved to libera.chat.  (I did notice that the 'openstack' user just
> dropped out of #openvswitch.  I think that's the bot that did the
> meeting recordings.  So maybe that infastructure is moving across right
> as I write.)

When things are ported, please change freenode's #openvswitch topic
to say that we are moving to the new network.

Usually the 'topic' is displayed when someone joins the channel, so
it could help users to find out about the change.

-- 
fbl


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