I think I favor option B. But I don't have to maintain it. I would prefer not to go to something like slack, but one of the more modern IRC replacements when I can at least read history is nice. So rocket chat? Or gitter?
—Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <m...@macports.org> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 1:58 PM Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote: > On 19/05/2021 15.43, Marius Schamschula wrote: > > It has come to my attention, on Twitter, that freenode.net > > <http://freenode.net>, were MacPorts hosts it’s IRC channels, is having > > some serious issues [1]. The admins have resigned and control may now be > > in questionable hands. > > Right, we need to take action and move away from Freenode. This also > opens a few opportunities for us on how to go forward. > > > a) Move #macports to Libera.Chat > While there are also other IRC networks, the new Libera.Chat appears to > become the direct successor of Freenode. Many projects are moving right > now. > > b) Declare RocketChat as official chat > We already have a RocketChat instance at chat.macports.org, which has > been running for a while in parallel and we already gathered a few > users. [1] > > c) Evaluate further options > IRC is old, lacks modern features. Self-hosted RocketChat requires > regular maintenance. Matrix could be another federated alternative. > > > Rainer > > [1] The RocketChat #general channel is supposed to be bridged to the IRC > channel, but this is broken at the moment. > See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62908 >
