From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>, "Kevin Daudt" <me@ikke.info>,
"Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"Emily Shaffer" <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Should we do something with #git-devel on Freenode?
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 22:29:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60b0638618044_49b58208a4@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YLBJJEQEUW8MVJm8@nand.local>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-28 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-19 17:47 Should we do something with #git-devel on Freenode? Emily Shaffer
2021-05-19 19:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-05-19 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-20 7:11 ` Michal Suchánek
2021-05-20 17:19 ` Jeff King
2021-05-20 18:08 ` Emily Shaffer
2021-05-20 21:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-21 11:19 ` Kevin Daudt
2021-07-02 12:15 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-02 15:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-21 18:38 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-21 20:12 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-26 23:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-26 23:59 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-27 0:24 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-05-26 18:47 ` Taylor Blau
2021-05-26 20:01 ` Kevin Daudt
2021-05-27 17:18 ` Jan Krüger
2021-05-27 21:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-28 1:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-28 1:36 ` Taylor Blau
2021-05-28 3:29 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-05-28 8:00 ` Jan Krüger
2021-05-28 14:37 ` Phillip Susi
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