For mode detail about the situation, I consulted: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-korea-crown-prince-takeover https://www.kline.sh/
In the past my use of IRC was limited by firewalls. If at all possible, whatever is moved to, I would request be web-accessable (https). Freenode has the web-chat client, which when I was limited by firewalls, was really appreciated. (Wifi guest networks are bad about this in particular) > Lacking some formal voting infrastructure, how do we take this vote? > I'd say, KISS: please reply to this email and express your preference. So I thought there was some kind of voting infrastructure (VI) already? I thought this is what Open Governance would hinge on. I was under the impression that there would be some kind of VI, and that would be used to shape the direction of Qt. Anyhow, my mistakes aside, I thought Gerrit was the tool, where our accounts could vote on a patch set (ballot) that would record the vote. Also it would help to formally specify what the ballot questions are. ----- Ballot -- vvv * Is the Qt community OK at staying on Freenode? (Currently it has an *official* presence! Although noone seems to know better, esp. who is the primary contact for this presence. Looking at the channels registrations, the founders are Thiago, ossi, tronical, JP-Nurmi, but that doesn't necessarily match who is the point of contact.) Vote: Is is not Ok. * If no: does it wish to move to another IRC network -- to where? Vote: Libera or KDE. It is too soon to decide because Libera.chat is down. If KDE is willing to take the burden, I would be ok with that. * If no: does it want to drop its official IRC presence? Implication: the #qt* channels namespace will be released, and so up for grabs by the first person passing by and registering channels in there. Vote: Keep the channels, just to forward to the new resource. ("Qt has moved...") ----- Ballot -- ^^^ _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development