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

Frode Nordahl frode.nordahl at canonical.com
Wed May 26 07:39:36 UTC 2021


On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:08 PM Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> During the irc meeting today, a question of @openstack bot was raised.
> We use the bot to manage and log our weekly meetings, and we would
> like to continue using it after migration.
>
> I talked to openstack infra folks (specifically, @fungi), and here is
> what I am told:
> - openstack still hasn't decided whether to move anywhere from freenode;
> - if they move, they will move to oftc that was long time ago
> designated as their backup;
> - they pre-created all official channels for their sub-projects in
> oftc; #openvswitch is not openstack project and so is not owned by
> them there;
> - I am told that even the fact the bot was enabled for freenode
> #openvswitch was probably a mistake since they usually require
> ownership for the channel to do that. Regardless,
> https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/project-config/+/714174/ was
> merged.
>
> It doesn't seem like there are plans to ever support bot on libera
> network. They MAY support it on oftc is tech committee decides to move
> (still on agenda). If we want to continue using the bot, we will have
> to run our own instance (both the bot itself as well as the web server
> to publish logs).
>
> It may be easier to move to oftc and not libera if we want to continue
> using the bot without taking over its maintenance. Regardless, we may
> have to formally pass over ownership of the channel to openstack
> infra.
>
> If you ask my personal opinion, I would take a timeout and watch what
> other projects (especially openstack that we rely on here) do and then
> decide. Freenode is still operating and can serve the project needs
> until we have a better picture.

Our, and some 700 other channels, were just taken over for advertising
other IRC networks in topic (see attached screenshot). I think this is
the cue to leave Freenode.

-- 
Frode Nordahl

> I hope it helps,
> Ihar
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 4:04 PM Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org> 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?
> >
> > Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
> >
> > [1] https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461
> > [2] https://libera.chat/
> > [3] https://blog.centos.org/2021/05/centos-irc-channels-moving-to-irc-libera-chat/
> > [4] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-05-19-liberachat/
> > [5] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2021q2/006888.html
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