[Vote] Move official IRC presence to OFTC

Etienne Champetier champetier.etienne at gmail.com
Wed May 26 06:10:25 PDT 2021


Hi All,

Le mer. 26 mai 2021 à 08:13, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> a écrit :
>
> On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 10:50 +0200, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the OFTC network has been widely suggested as alternative in the
> > previous "Freenode woes" thread, so I'd like to start a vote here to
> > reach a formal decision in order to move forward.
> >
> > Do you agree to
> >
> >  - Put a short migration notice as news item on the frontpage
> >  - Change instances of Freenode to OFTC in the wiki/contact section
> >  - Post a IRC migration notice as a sticky topic to the forum
> >  - Post a IRC migration notice to the mailing lists (announce, adm)
> >  - Link to the migration news in the Freenode IRC channels topics
>
> [✔] Yes
> [ ] No
>
>
> We can even kick all users from the Freenode channels and mark them
> invite-only. As long as we keep a presence there and try to avoid the
> channel being created again.

It seems freenode started to hijack channels
https://lwn.net/Articles/857252/

It might be better to kick all users and make it invite only than to
change the IRC channel topic

Best,
Etienne



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