On 2021-06-01 13:31, Ladislav Slezak wrote:
Yes, it reminds me a similar reaction when Microsoft acquired GitHub.
Many projects in panic quickly moved to Gitlab or elsewhere, Gitlab had
some
difficulties to manage the unexpected load and traffic at the
beginning....
And today? GitHub is still a great place for FOSS projects (IMHO one
of the best), they are improving it, adding new features, etc...
+1
Personally I'm not against the move, on the other hand there is no
need for rush. We can just wait and see.
+1
Also, please think about people who know about our IRC channel on
freenode because they have been there before or because they read about
it on any of our many web pages and wikis; they might not all follow the
daily hacker news and not be aware of any movement towards a different
place.
They will simply try our old #yast channel on freenode IRC, not find us
there, and have no clue where to find us now.
I know it's trendy in the Open Source community to be a moving target,
but that breaks established links and social contacts all the time. It's
like our Wikis full of information, then being abandoned, and people
simply never know which is the current one or if the one they bookmarked
is still the right one or where to find the current one.
If there is a factual need to move for hard reasons, we'll have to, of
course. But let's please not do that for the sake of virtue signalling.
It would be throwing away more than a setting in each of our IRC
clients; we'd throw a good part of our community over board as well.
Kind regards
--
Stefan Hundhammer <[email protected]>
YaST Developer
SUSE Linux GmbH
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Nürnberg)
