[oi-dev] Have we finished migrating to Libera Chat?

[James Madgwick]

Hi,

Libera Chat has just marked their one month milestone -
https://libera.chat/news/one-month-of-libera-chat. OI has had channels
on Libera Chat for much of that time and the old freenode channels have
seen little activity* since.

All the documentation still refers to freenode. Now that Libera Chat is
established, it is possibly time to bring the documentation up to date.

I've proposed a PR to update the main docs site:
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-docs/pull/190

The OI homepage has mentions of freenode on these pages:
https://www.openindiana.org/community/
https://www.openindiana.org/community/support/
https://www.openindiana.org/community/getting-involved/

Whomever is responsible for the website (?) will need to update them.

What does everything think about this? It would be good to poll the
community somehow. In case some people want to keep using freenode and
keep it mentioned in the documentation. That seems very unlikely, but
it would be wrong to simply merge these changes without any warning or
consultation.

It would be beneficial to continue logging IRC messages as these can be
good source for reference. Logbot have made their archives available:
https://archive.logbot.info/. We could extract the OI channel logs from
here and add them somewhere?

Thanks,
James



* According to logbot.info (now no longer operating), the last message
  posted to #openindiana on freenode was June 9 - nobody replied. The
  last message with replies was on June 6. My logs indicate much more
  activity on the libera.chat #openindiana channel - the last message
  was on June 27 and plenty of activity throughout June. For oi-dev,
  there's no human messages since June 7 on freenode. On libera.chat
  oi-dev had messages a few days ago.