Hi, Personally i've never used the IRC or Discord channels, I find the mailing list much easier to use and search.
p.s I of course do use Discord for my Amiga retro hobby projects, so i am aware of its limitations, particularly the signal to noise ratio. On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 07:57, Christian MAUDERER < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Joel, > > Am 27.05.21 um 22:20 schrieb Joel Sherrill: > > Hi > > > > Community input is needed and appreciated! > > > > The #rtems IRC server (freenode.net <http://freenode.net/>) has > > undergone some turmoil and we need to discuss what to do. This email > > provides some hopefully unbiased background on the Freenode situation, > > the options I identified, and my personal recommendation. > > > > If you follow the nerdy type of news, you may be aware of some serious > > turmoil. I won't even try to rehash all the news but the basic outline > > is that the owner of the domain name has pushed some uncool things, > > forcing some elected leaders out, most/all the volunteers have left, > > etc. There is some concern that any information on freenode will be > > commercialized. This isn't much except for registered users who have a > > nickname and password. That much should all be covered here with lots of > > links. > > > > https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resigns/ > > <https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/freenode_staff_resigns/> > > > > This is a starting point to read things from the volunteer viewpoint > > that was posted to a GCC mailing list: > > > > https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409 > > <https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409> > > > > At this point, open source projects are bailing on Freenode for > > libera.chat which was founded and setup by Freenode volunteers. I saw > > over 400 projects have moved to the libera.chat. Showing the tone of > > what's happening at Freenode, if libera.chat was mentioned in a channel, > > the admins for that channel had their permissions removed and new admins > > were assigned. This has only increased the rate of the exodus. > > > > > https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbgvg/major-internet-projects-are-leaving-freenode-after-korean-prince-takeover > > < > https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbgvg/major-internet-projects-are-leaving-freenode-after-korean-prince-takeover > > > > > > Our Discord setup seems to be doing well and is more active than I ever > > saw on IRC. The question to the community is what should we do? Options > are: > > > > (1) Drop Freenode and IRC entirely. Focus on Discord > > (2) Drop Freenode. Add libre.chat (or another). Still keep Discord > > (3) Drop Freenode. Drop Discord. Focus on IRC on libre.chat (or another). > > > > I'm leaning to (1) but whatever we do, the git commit -> IRC bot is > > down/broken and will have to be addressed. If we commit completely to > > Discord, we need bot(s) there and git commits need to go to Discord. > > > > I still think it's a bit odd to say "Drop Freenode" because Freenode > seems to go into a more commercial direction but at the same time say > that the Discord (which seems to be commercial through and through) is a > good alternative. > > In other words: As long as we don't mind using Discord, I would just > keep the Freenode IRC just like it is. > > > Even if we go with (1), it may make sense to claim #rtems on the two IRC > > servers that open source projects are moving to. Just in case something > > else happens, we will have those channels reserved and some admins lined > > up. But we can leave them unused. > > Note that some users might find these channels and try to get support > there. > > > > > If anyone knows or wants to now about Discord bots, I am sure help would > > be appreciated. > > Seems that Discord supports web hooks: > > https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook#execute-webhook > > So it's more or less generating json-data. > > Best regards > > Christian > > > > > What does everyone thing should happen? > > > > --joel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------- > embedded brains GmbH > Herr Christian MAUDERER > Dornierstr. 4 > 82178 Puchheim > Germany > email: [email protected] > phone: +49-89-18 94 741 - 18 > fax: +49-89-18 94 741 - 08 > > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München > Registernummer: HRB 157899 > Vertretungsberechtigte Geschäftsführer: Peter Rasmussen, Thomas Dörfler > Unsere Datenschutzerklärung finden Sie hier: > https://embedded-brains.de/datenschutzerklaerung/ > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- regards --- Matthew J Fletcher
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