Reevaluating choice of IRC network for our service bots

[Ghanshyam Mann]

 ---- On Mon, 24 May 2021 15:34:19 -0500 Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote ----
 > On 2021-05-24 11:19:12 -0500 (-0500), Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
 > [...]
 > > Does openinfra projects have their individual choice which one
 > > they want to move or continue OR there will be only a single
 > > network provided/supported by opendev based on the majority of
 > > openinfra projects feedback.
 > [...]
 > 
 > Technically those are two separate questions, so I'll do my best to
 > answer them both.
 > 
 > OpenDev doesn't mandate communication choices for projects, you're
 > always free to communicate where you like.
 > 
 > However, OpenDev doesn't provide nor plan to provide services
 > spanning multiple IRC networks, so we'll attempt to accommodate
 > whichever network the majority of our projects are using. If that's
 > Freenode then clearly we don't need to change anything. If it's OFTC
 > then that's a contingency we've planned for, and we can execute a
 > move of our services there fairly quickly. If it's some other IRC
 > network then expect longer delays and a fair bit more work on our
 > part.
 > 
 > The fact that we've kept channels registered for everyone on OFTC is
 > fairly significant, because that means we don't need to wrest
 > control from anyone who might already be hanging out in them.
 > Without that, some channels (particularly those not namespaced)
 > could take years to get under our control, if ever.
 > -- 

Thanks for the details.

In today TC ad-hoc meeting, we concluded in OpenStack that we are moving to OFTC

Details and agreement with action plan are below etherpad:
- https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack-irc

-gmann

 > Jeremy Stanley
 >