On Friday 01 August 2008, Chrissy Fullam wrote: > > Debian did exactly the same a couple of months > > ago prior to them moving out to OFTC > > (http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060604) > > This addresses a question I raised a few days back regarding whether > we were concerned that Gentoo moving to any another network would > have a negative impact on our community. This demonstrates that not > only is this not a new idea, but that a peer community did the same > thing. Does anyone have any contacts within Debian that would be > willing to share their 'lessons learned' from the transition?
I don't know if this counts as a "lesson learned", but their move seems to have lead to a split. All documentation since 2006 points to OFTC, but #debian on freenode is still the largest channel, whereas even developer channels have to be maintained. It looks to me as if most developers accepted the move, while users did not. number of users (as of Sat Aug 2 14:30 CEST 2008) ~ irc.freenode.net irc.oftc.net #debian 826 326 #debian.se 18 3 #debian.de 128 124 #debian-devel 41 353 #debian-boot 6 89 Robert
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