Moving from Freenode

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 6/14/21 12:11 PM, Simon Sapin wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As you may know by now, Freenode is no longer a safe place to be:
>
> * https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409/
> * https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/goodbye_freenode.html
> * https://twitter.com/IRCCloud/status/1404153550159159298
>
> Yet it is still where the "official" IRC channel for Mercurial is, at 
> least as documented on the wiki https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/IRC
>
> I feel strongly that we should pick something else for chat as soon as 
> possible, and stop directing users and contributors to Freenode.


I am seconding this proposal to move away from freenode as soon as possible.

We already have an active channel on libera.chat, so the simplest seems 
to make it the new official channel.

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Yves David