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On Friday 01 August 2008, Chrissy Fullam wrote: |
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> > Debian did exactly the same a couple of months |
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> > ago prior to them moving out to OFTC |
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> > (http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060604) |
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> This addresses a question I raised a few days back regarding whether |
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> we were concerned that Gentoo moving to any another network would |
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> have a negative impact on our community. This demonstrates that not |
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> only is this not a new idea, but that a peer community did the same |
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> thing. Does anyone have any contacts within Debian that would be |
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> willing to share their 'lessons learned' from the transition? |
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I don't know if this counts as a "lesson learned", but their move seems |
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to have lead to a split. All documentation since 2006 points to OFTC, |
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but #debian on freenode is still the largest channel, whereas even |
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developer channels have to be maintained. It looks to me as if most |
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developers accepted the move, while users did not. |
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number of users (as of Sat Aug 2 14:30 CEST 2008) |
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~ irc.freenode.net irc.oftc.net |
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#debian 826 326 |
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#debian.se 18 3 |
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#debian.de 128 124 |
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#debian-devel 41 353 |
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#debian-boot 6 89 |
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Robert |
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