But I am not talking about creating a new network, but providing some of our resources to freenode. They would likely operate and manage it without assistance from wmf ops.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Faidon Liambotis <fai...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 09:35:56AM +0200, Petr Bena wrote: >> One developer recently complained about some freenode policies, >> specifically that wiki projects (wikipedia etc has some kind of >> exception) are no longer allowed to be hosted on freenode network, >> which is supposed to host only opensource projects. It's fact that as >> the wikimedia project is becoming more large the freenode is getting >> less and less suitable. Right now there is a page [1] where are >> discussed other options for IRC. One of the options is to leave >> freenode and set up own wikimedia IRC network, which has lot of >> benefits but also lot of issues (moving to another network is >> complicated given to number of channels and users). > > Setting up and properly maintaining an IRC network is extremely > complicated. We really *really* shouldn't do that, esp. since there is > no reason for us to do so, when there are other open networks around. > > Even if the situation with freenode doesn't work out (which I think it > will), we could perhaps reach out to OFTC, an alternative IRC network > where some free software projects have fled to (there was discussions in > the past to merge freenode/OFTC but those proved to be unfruitful)a. > > Regards, > Faidon > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
