On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 07:29:46PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote: 65;6401;1c> 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
Is there a procedure to obtain consensus?
so please do respond with your thoughts on the matter.
I feel like I've read more than a normal person would/should have, and I still have no idea what's going on. Whatever the behind-the-scenes reality is, the unfortunate result is that being involved with our projects has acquired the additional step of "overcome existential crisis of using freenode". dmsimard's comment [1] is the best one I've seen tracking who is going where amongst peer projects. Despite communications like [2] it would seem to take a phoenix-esque reputation rehabilitation to revert these already made decisions [3]. To me, moving from freenode is looking less like something we need to decide, but more like action we need to take for self-preservation (i.e. not alienating our most important resource; developers). Per the ~7 years of occasional messages, OFTC seems like a fine choice. -i [1] https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/19#issuecomment... [2] https://freenode.net/news/freenode-is-foss [3] companies who have had contentious relationships with free software over a long period of time have undoubtedly managed to go on to later capture a large portion of open source development, even when their platforms don't provide for open tools or governance; so never say never... -i