On 2021-05-19 13:49:33 +0000 (+0000), Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2021-05-19 14:19:02 +0100 (+0100), Erno Kuvaja wrote: [...]
I think it's our time to take swift action and show our support to all the hard working volunteers who were behind freenode and move all our activities to irc.libera.chat. [...]
In past years when the stability of Freenode's service came into question, we've asserted that OFTC would probably have been a better home for our channels from the beginning (as they're more aligned with our community philosophies), but we ended up on Freenode mostly due to the Ubuntu community's presence there. We'd previously been unable to justify the impact to users of switching networks, but there seemed to be consensus that if Freenode shut down we'd move to OFTC. The earliest concrete proposal I can find for this was made in March 2014, but it's come up multiple times in the years since:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/028783.html
Honestly I'd be concerned about moving to a newly-established IRC network, and would much prefer the stability of a known and established one.
I've also spent last night catching up all our channel registrations on OFTC. The ~150 active channels in which we operate our IRC bots are now registered to us there and under our control, with a handful of exceptions where I need to follow up with folks today to get our accessbot account added. Switching to OFTC at this point would be fairly quick, at least from an infrastructure perspective. -- Jeremy Stanley