On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:08 PM Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrac...@redhat.com> wrote: > > During the irc meeting today, a question of @openstack bot was raised. > We use the bot to manage and log our weekly meetings, and we would > like to continue using it after migration. > > I talked to openstack infra folks (specifically, @fungi), and here is > what I am told: > - openstack still hasn't decided whether to move anywhere from freenode; > - if they move, they will move to oftc that was long time ago > designated as their backup; > - they pre-created all official channels for their sub-projects in > oftc; #openvswitch is not openstack project and so is not owned by > them there; > - I am told that even the fact the bot was enabled for freenode > #openvswitch was probably a mistake since they usually require > ownership for the channel to do that. Regardless, > https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/project-config/+/714174/ was > merged. > > It doesn't seem like there are plans to ever support bot on libera > network. They MAY support it on oftc is tech committee decides to move > (still on agenda). If we want to continue using the bot, we will have > to run our own instance (both the bot itself as well as the web server > to publish logs). > > It may be easier to move to oftc and not libera if we want to continue > using the bot without taking over its maintenance. Regardless, we may > have to formally pass over ownership of the channel to openstack > infra. > > If you ask my personal opinion, I would take a timeout and watch what > other projects (especially openstack that we rely on here) do and then > decide. Freenode is still operating and can serve the project needs > until we have a better picture.
Our, and some 700 other channels, were just taken over for advertising other IRC networks in topic (see attached screenshot). I think this is the cue to leave Freenode. -- Frode Nordahl > I hope it helps, > Ihar > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 4:04 PM Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@ovn.org> wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > Taking into account some very unhealthy things that happened recently > > with FreeNode network and resigning of lots of its stuff [1], we > > probably need to discuss if Open vSwitch project wants to change the > > IRC server for a primary #openvswitch channel. User's data is the > > main concern, IIUC, as it's unclear what the new management will > > do with the network. > > > > The main alternative now seems to be the Libera.Chat [2] where most of > > the former FreeNode stuff. > > > > Some projects already announced [3][4] movement to Libera.Chat. Others > > are discussing the possibility [5]. > > > > So, I think, it make sense to discuss the future of #openvswitch > > channel too. Any thoughts? > > > > Will we have an OVN meeting on a different server tomorrow? > > > > Best regards, Ilya Maximets. > > > > [1] https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461 > > [2] https://libera.chat/ > > [3] > > https://blog.centos.org/2021/05/centos-irc-channels-moving-to-irc-libera-chat/ > > [4] https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-05-19-liberachat/ > > [5] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2021q2/006888.html > > _______________________________________________ > > dev mailing list > > d...@openvswitch.org > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > disc...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
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