[ovs-dev] Moving of the primary #openvswitch channel to irc.libera.chat ?
Ben Pfaff
blp at ovn.org
Thu May 20 15:51:15 UTC 2021
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 09:46:01AM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> 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.
That makes sense. I will do that.
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