Reevaluating choice of IRC network for our service bots

[Radosław Piliszek]

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:21 AM Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
>
> Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> > [...]
> > If there is a consensus to move OpenDev's services to OFTC, or any
> > other IRC network for that matter, this will entail a bit of
> > development effort in order to accommodate the differences mentioned
> > above. Please do note, however, that moving to a network other than
> > OFTC would additionally mean we can't guarantee the availability of
> > the same IRC channel names either, so that needs to be weighed in
> > any decision. Some discussion[4][5][6] is already underway within
> > the OpenStack community as to what they'd prefer, but we haven't
> > heard much from other projects yet, so please do respond with your
> > thoughts on the matter.
>
> My personal view on this would be (with bits stolen from Jim's proposal
> on Zuul's ML):
>
> - the situation warrants relatively quick action (measured in days), so
> we should stay on IRC
>
> - small preference for OFTC due to the level of Opendev team
> preparation, but also because Libera.Chat will likely be a hot target
> for a while
>
> - once the dust settles we should definitely consider a move toward a
> more federated / decentralized / accessible system like Matrix

Great summary, I agree 100%.

-yoctozepto