On 16.6.2021 12.13, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > We've moved our official support channels from Freenode to Libera.chat. > All that's happened afterwards pretty much proves that this was > the right decision. Maybe even to the point of saying that staying > on Freenode would be dangerous to our users (e.g. because of the late > NickServ impersonations, ops with bad reputation etc.). > > However, there are still IRC clients in Gentoo that default to Freenode. > I think the next questions we need to answer are:
Examples? Is the list huge? https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/net-irc > > 1. Should we be proactively changing the default network in IRC clients > (provided they have one) from Freenode to Libera.chat? Yes. > > 1a. If yes, then should we also make a change if clients default to > network other than Freenode? IMO yes. > > 2. Should we be proactively *removing* Freenode from the network list > in IRC clients (provided they have one)? Classic or Future Freenode? ;) (yes, there is no Freenode anymore) > > 2a. Should we be adding Libera.chat to the list even if we do not remove > Freenode? Yes. Ideally all these would be taken care by upstream. Which might provoke some version updates to dear old IRC clients... Anyhow I can also imagine leaving these up to package maintainers, and this mail to work as an encouragement. -- juippis
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