On 5/20/21 4:32 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:16 AM Quentin Schulz < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Khem, all, >> >> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote: >>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 9:56 AM Nicolas Dechesne >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:49 PM Jasper Orschulko < >> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> Hash: SHA256 >>>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> there have been recent reports of a hostile takeover of the freenode >>>>> service, as described in >>>>> https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409 >>>>> >>>>> The Yocto Project should verify these reports and take the necessary >>>>> actions, in order to protect its users. >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for your email. We are aware, and have started to look into >> that. >>>> >>>> It looks like some open source communities have started to move to >> https://www.oftc.net/ or https://libera.chat/.. If anyone wants to bring >> any insights or recommendations... feel free! >>> >>> perhaps good time to consider matrix >>> >> >> I disagree. Matrix just does not work. I've been using with a few >> friends with mixed homeservers, chat.privacytools.io, matrix.org, >> converser.eu and self-hosted homeservers... I've sometimes not received >> tens of messages in a row, usually for a duration of at least 15 mins >> and there's obviously no indication whatsoever that I didn't receive >> messages except that the discussion does not make sense at all. And this >> happened to three other people on the room, each on a different homeserver >> than the other, so not a PEBKAC :) Sometimes there are delays for >> messages too (I've seen 30min delays), so the whole context is lost. >> >> For a federated chat solution, that's really a bummer that its main >> feature is just so buggy it's unusable. >> >> If YP is ok with potentially not receiving questions or having people >> ask questions and not receive answers, then fine by me :) >> >> I'm probably among the small (?) minority of people experiencing those >> issues but that's not a bet I'd take with my projects. >> >> My 2ยข. >> > > I think the question of setting up Matrix for our community is a valid > question, though I think it's orthogonal to the current problem. If > freenode goes away , we need an alternate plan to move *right away* to > another IRC server. If we want to setup addition communications means (such > as Matrix or anything else) that needs to be discussed and it might take > more time.
We have registered #oe and #yocto on libera already, so we can easily transition irc servers as the situation develops. Philip > > >> >> Cheers, >> Quentin >> > > > > >
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