Moving from Freenode

Raphaël Gomès raphael.gomes at octobus.net
Tue Jun 15 08:44:48 UTC 2021


I think it's time to move on to libera for now, especially since last 
night's freenode net split.

I will update the wiki page.

On 6/14/21 5:33 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> The SC has discussed this a bit, but really I don't think you need the 
> SC to make this decision? If the consensus is everyone wants to chat 
> on LC instead of freenode, that seems fine and you should feel 
> encouraged to update/modernize the wiki page to reflect that IMO.
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:17 AM Pierre-Yves David 
> <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org 
> <mailto:pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org>> wrote:
>
>     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://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409/>
>     > * https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/goodbye_freenode.html
>     <https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202106/goodbye_freenode.html>
>     > * https://twitter.com/IRCCloud/status/1404153550159159298
>     <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
>     <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
>
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