Re: Should we do something with #git-devel on Freenode?

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Taylor Blau wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 08:26:53PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> >
> > > I don't see why we'd advertise #git@liberachat and not #git@freenode in
> > > order to achieve that goal, the latter doesn't seem to be a graveyard
> > > and is probably still more active. I don't see why we'd need to pick
> > > between the two, any more than we'd pick between advertising
> > > #git@liberachat and the git-users mailing list. Both currently seem like
> > > useful venues for git users to go to get help.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > The primary purpose of an IRC channel should be to help users, and if
> > right now the person that could help a user is on freenode, so be it.
> >
> > If the people with some political alignment want to emphasize
> > LiberaChat, that's fine, but keep mentioning freenode.
> 
> git-scm.com was updated recently to mention LiberaChat instead of
> Freenode [1]. That was done to reflect the reality of [2]. I suspect
> that will have been the right decision, but in case it isn't (and
> there are still people hanging around in #git on Freenode), then I'd
> be in favor of mentioning both.

As of this moment (2021-05-27T22:20:00-0500) there's 324 people on
Libera.Chat, and 762 on freenode.

So yeah... I'd say there are still people hanging around in #git on
freenode.

> For what it's worth, I also do not care about the Freenode versus
> Libera (or vice-versa?) debacle. That said, I do think having one
> central place for people to hang out is better than two (if for no
> other reason than it's fewer places to check or go to if you want
> help), but I would be fine if the status-quo were that there is an
> active #git channel on both Libera and Freenode.

Sure, one would be better than two, but rarely can we pick the reality
that is better... Reality just is.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras