Taylor Blau wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 08:26:53PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > > > > I don't see why we'd advertise #git@liberachat and not #git@freenode in > > > order to achieve that goal, the latter doesn't seem to be a graveyard > > > and is probably still more active. I don't see why we'd need to pick > > > between the two, any more than we'd pick between advertising > > > #git@liberachat and the git-users mailing list. Both currently seem like > > > useful venues for git users to go to get help. > > > > Agreed. > > > > The primary purpose of an IRC channel should be to help users, and if > > right now the person that could help a user is on freenode, so be it. > > > > If the people with some political alignment want to emphasize > > LiberaChat, that's fine, but keep mentioning freenode. > > git-scm.com was updated recently to mention LiberaChat instead of > Freenode [1]. That was done to reflect the reality of [2]. I suspect > that will have been the right decision, but in case it isn't (and > there are still people hanging around in #git on Freenode), then I'd > be in favor of mentioning both. As of this moment (2021-05-27T22:20:00-0500) there's 324 people on Libera.Chat, and 762 on freenode. So yeah... I'd say there are still people hanging around in #git on freenode. > For what it's worth, I also do not care about the Freenode versus > Libera (or vice-versa?) debacle. That said, I do think having one > central place for people to hang out is better than two (if for no > other reason than it's fewer places to check or go to if you want > help), but I would be fine if the status-quo were that there is an > active #git channel on both Libera and Freenode. Sure, one would be better than two, but rarely can we pick the reality that is better... Reality just is. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
