| 1 |
On 16/06/2021 11:45, Michał Górny wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Wed, 2021-06-16 at 12:43 +0300, Joonas Niilola wrote: |
| 3 |
>> On 16.6.2021 12.13, Michał Górny wrote: |
| 4 |
>>> Hi, everyone. |
| 5 |
>>> |
| 6 |
>>> We've moved our official support channels from Freenode to Libera.chat. |
| 7 |
>>> All that's happened afterwards pretty much proves that this was |
| 8 |
>>> the right decision. Maybe even to the point of saying that staying |
| 9 |
>>> on Freenode would be dangerous to our users (e.g. because of the late |
| 10 |
>>> NickServ impersonations, ops with bad reputation etc.). |
| 11 |
>>> |
| 12 |
>>> However, there are still IRC clients in Gentoo that default to Freenode. |
| 13 |
>>> I think the next questions we need to answer are: |
| 14 |
>> |
| 15 |
>> Examples? Is the list huge? |
| 16 |
>> https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/net-irc |
| 17 |
>> |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> I've just seen hexchat being updated, didn't investigate further. |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
Thunderbird has IRC functionality. When adding a new IRC account the |
| 23 |
server address field still defaults to chat.freenode.net, it should be a |
| 24 |
simple matter of sed s/chat.freenode.net/irc.libera.chat/g, or |
| 25 |
s/chat.freenode.net/irc.gentoo.org/g, and I imagine it would be just as |
| 26 |
simple for most IRC clients. |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
IMO it makes most sense to just switch the default to irc.gentoo.org if |
| 29 |
we are going to change defaults anyway. |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
I think that eventually most IRC clients will probably move away from |
| 32 |
freenode anyway. However, given the mess over at freenode and that it is |
| 33 |
a relatively simple change, I think it makes sense to start this effort |
| 34 |
proactively at a distro level asap. |
Archives