From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:37:20 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] docs: move the IRC channel away from Freenode In-Reply-To: <20210522194056.1676529-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Sat, 22 May 2021 21:40:56 +0200") References: <20210522194056.1676529-1-yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <87czsumdi7.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: > Due to the recent events at Frenode [0], the channel has become a bit > unreliable (much spammed), and users have started to move away already, > as quite a few other projects have moved their IRC presence away from > Freenode. > There are a few alternatives. The first to spring to mond, is the new > libera.chat network [1], managed by the previous Freenode staff, so we > could expect quite a good experience there. However, it is a very yong > network. The second well known alternative is the long-established OFTC, > which has been very reliable in its 20 years of existence. > So, let's move to OFTC, just because it has a track-record of robustness > (which Libera.Chat still has to build, for being young). > Note: there are a lot of other IRC networks, some very good too, but we > probably would be much off-topic on most of them. > [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/856543/ > [1] https://libera.chat/ > [2] https://www.oftc.net/ > Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN > Cc: Peter Korsgaard > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Committed to 2021.02.x, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard