[Gluster-users] Freenode takeover and GlusterFS IRC channels

Joe Julian joe at julianfamily.org
Mon Jun 7 21:28:39 UTC 2021


I stopped paying attention to freenode when there was never any activity 
there for months. As far as I have seen, slack and the email list are 
the only resources anybody seems to use anymore.

On 6/7/21 9:11 AM, Amar Tumballi wrote:
> We (at least many developers and some users) actively use Slack at 
> https://gluster.slack.com <https://gluster.slack.com>
>
> While I agree that it's not a free/open alternative to IRC, it does 
> get many questions answered, and also gets communication happen 
> related to the project.
>
> Regards,
> Amar
>
>
> On Mon, 7 Jun, 2021, 9:27 pm Jordan Erickson, 
> <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net 
> <mailto:jerickson at logicalnetworking.net>> wrote:
>
>     I'm relatively new to the community but I would vote for having a
>     point
>     of presence on libera.chat, or OFTC as some other F/OSS projects are
>     moving there as an alternative. I use IRC daily for supporting my own
>     projects as well as related projects such as GlusterFS. Personally I
>     hadn't heard of Matrix until the whole Freenode fiasco happened, so I
>     would imagine others may be in the same boat. Anyway, just my $0.02 :)
>
>
>     Cheers,
>     Jordan Erickson
>
>
>     On 6/7/21 5:51 AM, Anoop C S wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I hope many of us are aware of the recent changes that happened at
>     > Freenode IRC network(in case you are not, feel free to look into
>     > details based on various resignation letters from long-time then
>     > Freenode staff starting with [1]). In the light of this take over
>     > situation, many open source communities have moved over to its
>     > replacement i.e, libera.chat[2].
>     >
>     > Now I would like to open this up to GlusterFS community to think
>     about
>     > moving forward with our current IRC channels(#gluster,
>     #gluster-dev and
>     > #gluster-meeting) on Freenode. How important are those channels for
>     > GlusterFS project? How about moving over to libera.chat in case we
>     > stick to IRC communication?
>     >
>     > Let's discuss and conclude on the way forward..
>     >
>     > Note:- Matrix[3] platform is also an option nowadays and we do
>     have a
>     > Gluster room(#gluster:matrix.org <http://matrix.org>) there !
>     welcome..welcome :-)
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Anoop C S
>     >
>     >
>     > [1] https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt
>     <https://fuchsnet.ch/freenode-resign-letter.txt>
>     > [2] https://libera.chat/ <https://libera.chat/>
>     > [3] https://matrix.org/ <https://matrix.org/>
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