19 May
2021
19 May
'21
6:03 p.m.
On Wed, 19 May 2021 14:19:02 +0100 Erno Kuvaja ekuvaja@redhat.com 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.
I would prefer to take a deliberate action instead.
The leaders of the split admit that their actions were planned in advance. It says so at their website:
"In early 2021, that changed. ... This was the writing on the wall. As a precautionary measure, we began laying the groundwork for what would become Libera.Chat."
So they were plotting this for a long time and we're supposed to jump swiftly? That doesn't seem very fair.
-- Pete