On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 10:02 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > We are looking into changing our irc server name from irc.gimpnet.org to > irc.gnome.org and looking for feedback.
I think you mean irc.gimp.org or irc.gimp.net. > Essentially, it's become problematic to have 'gimp' in the name of our > server. To many, 'gimp' is an offensive term an given our dedication to > a11y it seems counter-intuitive to have this name in our infrastructure. Although, GIMP is an acronym I was not aware that connotation of gimp (as a non-English speaker I am not aware of many words either). With due respect, I think it is a coincidence. Bad coincidence. > The proposal is to make irc.gnome.org be an DNS A record and we will > continue to honor irc.gimpnet.org as a CNAME for one year in which case we > will then remove it altogether. > > Other than the name of the server being changed and possibly any associated > certs I do not forsee any other impact. Folks will have to change the name > of the server they connect to, software like XChat will need to update > their config files of default IRC servers to reflect the change. I think we can promote irc.gnome.org, but I do not think it is our call to remove any domain or subdomain associated with GIMP project. Did you ask to GIMP folks what do they think? Anyway, if you make the change, you should change irc.ca.gimp.org, irc.us.gimp.org and irc.au.gimp.org as well. Also, the change would be meaningless if the network name and the welcome message does not change. At the end of the day, in XChat you choose the network you want to join, not the domain name. That is the visible part most of the days. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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