From 8980133284d7d5f0d7cd71580796150c74b22f2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Batischev Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 17:54:32 +0300 Subject: Docs: IRC channel moved from Freenode to Libera.Chat (#848) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There's no mention of this on the issue tracker, so here's my recap of what led to this change. There is some drama around Freenode. Their volunteer staff quit[1]. Then the new-ish management started enacting strange policy changes[2] and take over the channels[3]. On June 26th 2021 Freenode's bot tried to take over #hakyll, but failed; however, it did succeed in #haskell and many, many other channels. For the preceding week, me and IRC user henk were trying to move the channel off the Freenode, either to Libera.Chat or OFTC. Jasper, the founder of Hakyll, was absent from IRC and didn't respond to my emails. Me and henk are the most active IRC users on the channel. Also, I have Collaborator access to the repo, and henk has chanop access to the IRC channel. We believe that at this time, we're the ones who are the best positioned to execute the move, so we're doing it. We only considered Libera.Chat and OFTC. Libera.Chat was created a week earlier by the same staff who quit Freenode; I personally consider them to be a spiritual successor of Freenode. OFTC is a well-established network with good governance documentation. Both networks are FOSS-friendly. The choice wasn't obvious. Libera.Chat was picked because 10 users moved there (and 1 more did while I was typing this!), whereas only 2 joined OFTC (me and henk, and those weren't votes for OFTC — we were just ensuring that the channel is ours). Also, #haskell and #ghc are on Libera too, so it makes sense for a Haskell project such as Hakyll to be present on Libera. For posterity: info #hakyll -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- Information on #hakyll: -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- Founder : jaspervdj -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- Registered : Mar 01 13:29:17 2011 (10y 12w 5d ago) -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- Mode lock : +ntc-slk -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- *** End of Info *** 1. https://kline.sh 2. https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/513 3. https://www.devever.net/~hl/freenode_abuse --- web/index.markdown | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'web/index.markdown') diff --git a/web/index.markdown b/web/index.markdown index bde5289..fd4c6ff 100644 --- a/web/index.markdown +++ b/web/index.markdown @@ -39,4 +39,5 @@ using [stack] by using `stack install hakyll`. Then, you can: - read the [tutorials](/tutorials.html); - mail the [google discussion group](http://groups.google.com/group/hakyll); - ask questions on the IRC channel: `#hakyll` on - [freenode](http://freenode.net/). + [irc.libera.chat](https://libera.chat/) (we *do not* have a channel on + Freenode anymore). -- cgit v1.2.3