On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 09:24:58PM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > Hi, > > I’m personally not an IRC user but I try to keep an eye on the IRC logs. > For personal reasons I haven’t had time to do since the start of the year > but I spent some time tonight to browse the archives. > > Since January there were somewhere between 5 and 10 persons asking > questions and NO ONE got a timely reply. On the other hand we have had a > slow but steady stream of questions on users@ and they have received > replies from different members of the community. > > I think the lack of replies on IRC reflects badly on the community. I’m not > able to put any energy into following the IRC channels and I cannot ask > anyone else either. But I think the mailing lists could absorb these > questions and give timely answers. > > For this reason, I suggest that we discontinue the IRC channels (remove > them from libera.chat) or at least change the topic to indicate that they > are no longer “official” and to refer all questions to the mailing lists. > The website should of course be updated accordingly. > > Kind regards > > Daniel Sahlberg
I am not sure whether outright removing (aka "dropping") our Libera channels from ChanServ is a good idea. Anyone could re-register a dropped channel and squat on the name and/or impersonate the project. Given this, I suppose the #svn users channel should be marked as unmaintained in the topic. Redirecting questions to the mailing list via the topic line should work well enough. The #svn-dev channel might still be useful for quick communication during bursts of increased project activity. I would keep it around. Cheers, Stefan
