On other hand I disagree that maintaining an irc network is so complicated, given that we have so many volunteers who would eventually help with that. But staying on freenode would make it easier for us, that's true.
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
