On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 4:58 AM Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:41:28AM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
> > > Considering latest development (the channel takeovers mentioned by
> Stefan
> > > Sperling in another part of the thread), I'd suggest that we switch the
> > > website. I would go for a more drastic change than Nathan's patch
> (which
> > > looked nice just two days ago) and put libera as the official channel
> and
> > > freenode as "in the past there were also freenode but it has been
> retired
> > > and is no longer used by the project".
> > >
> > > I could look at this tonight unless someone else beat me to it.
> >
> > I have just committed a patch to the staging area which replaces links
> > to freenode with links to libera.chat.
> >
> > Please feel free to take a look at it and merge changes to 'publish' as
> > soon as it is convenient for you to do so :)
>
> And I agree that it would be good to mention our freenode channels
> as having been retired. If you could add a statement to this effect
> on top of my link changes, and/or tweak whatever else you see that
> you think should be added or changed, I would appreciate it.
>

Some projects (e.g., Gentoo, Haiku-OS) have made announcements as to moving
their IRC channels [1], [2].

Should we announce (and is it appropriate to do so) the change of venue on
our announce@s.a.o list?

[1]
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/23/Moving-to-Libera.html

[2]
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-05-19_haiku_is_moving_to_oftc/

Cheers,
Nathan

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