Hi, Does the new IRC server used by Libra.chat will include a version release as Debian package ? On 2021-06-15 9:11 p.m., Steve McIntyre wrote: > Forwaring for information... > > ----- Forwarded message from Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> ----- > > From: Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> > To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:44:28 +0200 > Subject: Debian Presence on Freenode > > Hello everyone, > > as you may know, Debians official IRC presence moved from Freenode to > OFTC 15 years ago. Freenode still had a lively community of users > remaining and the #debian channel was pretty active too. > > As of today, this is no longer true. Debians IRC presence continues to > be on OFTC and we have a nice growing community on the new Libera.Chat > network, but anything on Freenode is neither official Debian supported > nor endorsed. Quite the contrary, we urge anyone to drop their > connections to freenode and join us in safer, more trustworthy places. > Anything on Freenode that looks like Debian is to be considered > unofficial, not supported and generally hostile. > > For those not closely following the events that lead us to this: A > hostile takeover with an entirely new set of staff, most of which we > would not accept as members in Debian, happened. Over the last weeks > they have acted irrationally taking over many other communities channels > and groups. Today that new staff made it worse and decided to drop *all* > nick and channel registrations, forcibly taking control over many of > those "in their new part of freenode". > > So, again: You are best of disconnecting from Freenode, if you haven't > already, and join us on OFTC or Libera. > > > For the new Libera.Chat network, we established a group registration and > will also hand out Debian cloaks to members again. Please open an issue > in our new Salsa project, if you want one: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian-irc-team/libera-cloak > > (Please be patient, we will group them together and try not overwhelming > Libera Staff with too many small requests). > > > Many thanks to the #debian ops team who have spent the last 3 weeks > setting up channels on irc.libera.chat and walking on eggshells trying > to siphon off users from freenode to safer places while avoiding getting > k:lined by the new staff of freenode for doing so. Most of them aren't > DDs but spend huge numbers of hours looking after our community for us. > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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