[Gluster-users] Freenode takeover and GlusterFS IRC channels

Darrell Budic budic at onholyground.com
Tue Jun 8 18:56:41 UTC 2021


I dropped my freenode account (Telsin) and moved to libera.chat, so I’m not hanging out in #gluster on freenode anymore. If #gluster moves, I’ll hop back in, otherwise I’ll stick to the mailing lists.

> On Jun 7, 2021, at 4:28 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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