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Luc Verhaegen
May 21, 2021, 4:01:43 PM5/21/21
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Hi, annoying email that i wish i never had to send...
To ensure continuity, #linux-sunxi on OFTC was registered, and the
existing (active) linux-sunxi founders and ops are added to chanserv
already (2 left to go, hope they read irc/email soon). This should
hopefully provide the stability that we have enjoyed for almost 9
years... Once the founders have talked through some more things, some
usual suspects will be added as ops, as we might need them now that we
no longer have the stable home that we used to have.
Why OFTC? Well...
OFTC has a more primitive chan/nickserv than freenode and libera, and
forked away from freenode like 15ys ago... So that's not good...
But...
It forked away from freenode 15ys ago, has yearly elections, bookkeeping
by SPI, and projects like debian and gcc have been there for ages. Even
though with my history, i almost never use Xorg/fd.o as a positive
example, this project is also moving there.
All of this is annoying, and pointless, i know. None of us chose for
this to happen, but none of us are here to play political games in the
middle of a fork of $infrastructure, we are all here to further support
for sunxi hw, and OFTC seems like the least painful road ahead at this
time.
Not that i want to drive people out of freenode en masse right away, i
just do not like to see the channel split over 3 or even more places a
month from now. And i definitely do not want to see people give up on
irc for something like forums or discord or whatever.
So while i am sorry for having to write this, I hope that this is an
adequate solution that does not drive anyone away from a stalwart tool
of open source development.
Luc Verhaegen.
To ensure continuity, #linux-sunxi on OFTC was registered, and the
existing (active) linux-sunxi founders and ops are added to chanserv
already (2 left to go, hope they read irc/email soon). This should
hopefully provide the stability that we have enjoyed for almost 9
years... Once the founders have talked through some more things, some
usual suspects will be added as ops, as we might need them now that we
no longer have the stable home that we used to have.
Why OFTC? Well...
OFTC has a more primitive chan/nickserv than freenode and libera, and
forked away from freenode like 15ys ago... So that's not good...
But...
It forked away from freenode 15ys ago, has yearly elections, bookkeeping
by SPI, and projects like debian and gcc have been there for ages. Even
though with my history, i almost never use Xorg/fd.o as a positive
example, this project is also moving there.
All of this is annoying, and pointless, i know. None of us chose for
this to happen, but none of us are here to play political games in the
middle of a fork of $infrastructure, we are all here to further support
for sunxi hw, and OFTC seems like the least painful road ahead at this
time.
Not that i want to drive people out of freenode en masse right away, i
just do not like to see the channel split over 3 or even more places a
month from now. And i definitely do not want to see people give up on
irc for something like forums or discord or whatever.
So while i am sorry for having to write this, I hope that this is an
adequate solution that does not drive anyone away from a stalwart tool
of open source development.
Luc Verhaegen.
Luc Verhaegen
May 22, 2021, 3:43:54 PM5/22/21
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On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 10:01:12PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> Hi, annoying email that i wish i never had to send...
>
> To ensure continuity, #linux-sunxi on OFTC was registered, and the
> existing (active) linux-sunxi founders and ops are added to chanserv
> already (2 left to go, hope they read irc/email soon). This should
> hopefully provide the stability that we have enjoyed for almost 9
> years... Once the founders have talked through some more things, some
> usual suspects will be added as ops, as we might need them now that we
> no longer have the stable home that we used to have.
All existing and active founders/operators (mnemoc, turl, plaes, rellla,
> Hi, annoying email that i wish i never had to send...
>
> To ensure continuity, #linux-sunxi on OFTC was registered, and the
> existing (active) linux-sunxi founders and ops are added to chanserv
> already (2 left to go, hope they read irc/email soon). This should
> hopefully provide the stability that we have enjoyed for almost 9
> years... Once the founders have talked through some more things, some
> usual suspects will be added as ops, as we might need them now that we
> no longer have the stable home that we used to have.
libv) were moved. And two new ones (wens, apritzel) were added.
Whitelogger has now also joined:
https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi
Luc Verhaegen.
Luc Verhaegen
May 26, 2021, 2:42:15 AM5/26/21
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https://mastodon.sdf.org/@kline/106299403921451814
"andrew lee just seized over 700 channels on freenode because they
mentioned libera.chat in their topic."
This was in my server log this morning:
"06:15 -rasengan(~rasengan@freenode/staff/rasengan)- [Global Notice] In
the recent policy enforcement, some channels were erroneously included.
We greatly apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact us in
#freenode-services or conta...@freenode.net. Thanks for your patience
and choosing freenode!"
It's time to move, sadly.
Many of the regulars are already on OFTC, and the above has left me
little option but to +m the channel on freenode.
What a waste.
Luc Verhaegen.
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