Reevaluating choice of IRC network for our service bots

[Ian Wienand]

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-844204319
[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