Hi all,
the proposition was made by me - personally I don't use IRC for
contacting/communicating with SANE community, however I found out there
is an IRC way mentioned in docs/sane.man file and it points users to
freenode.
More info about what happened to freenode and why community moved to
Libera.chat here[1] .
Then I checked whether there is a chat room in Libera.chat, found out it
exists and some people are connected to it, so I proposed it in the
merge request [2] .
However I'm not against removing the IRC paragraph in sane.man as whole
if community marks it as unneeded, but I found it as a more invasive
change and there can be people who actually use IRC for SANE, so I
didn't go for that type of change.
[1]
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-been-taken-over-by-the-crown-prince-of-korea/
[2] https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/637
On 6/17/21 4:59 PM, Ralph Little wrote:
Hi,
A proposition has been made that we alter our website to direct people
for IRC to Libera Chat rather than Freenode.
Personally, I do not use IRC at all, so I have no real opinion on this
question.
I have nothing against Freenode myself, but if users have moved off of
Freenode, then I guess the question is rather moot.
I understand that people sometimes have quite strong views on these
things so I guess I'm putting it out there for comment.
Cheers,
Ralph
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