Hello, Rather than just move to another IRC server, we should really take this as an opportunity to move to another chat service as the official Qt Project chat. IRC has a terrible user experience and is not at all accessible for people who haven't been using it for decades like many of us. It does us a huge disservice when trying to attracting new contributors to point to our IRC. There are lots of better options out there now (which I see some of you on already), so lets move on already.
Regards, Andy Nichols -----Original Message----- From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 4:18 PM To: development@qt-project.org Subject: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC Hi, Freenode, the network that hosts our IRC communities, is in the middle of some important community changes. TL;DR: most of the volunteer staff resigned in protest with what looks like a sell-out of the network and its user data. You can read some more details here: https://www.kline.sh/ https://coevoet.fr/freenode.html https://mniip.com/freenode.txt While Freenode won't shut down tomorrow morning, this still raises some questions whether Qt wants to keep its community there or move to another network. (The ex-staff has founded another network, libera, where most people are moving.) Who's in charge of the online Qt communities? What's the process to decide about this? Thanks, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dang...@kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.com KDAB - The Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
