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2021-05-26 The OpenStack community IRC network moving to OFTC
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The OpenStack community uses IRC as one of the communication channels for
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development activities. IRC can run on many different networks, and we have
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used ``Freenode`` as the IRC network since the beginning.
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Recently, there was a change in ownership, organization structure, and policy
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in ``Freenode``. A lot of discussions occurred in social media, etherpad[1]
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and in openstack-discuss ML[2][3] about the issue, questioning whether we
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should continue using ``Freenode``. The OpenStack Technical Committee gathered
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more feedback and information from the individual projects[4][5].
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Given the feedback from the community and the current situation with Freenode,
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the Technical Committee along with the other community leaders,
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decided to change the IRC network from Freenode as soon as possible[6],
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otherwise we run the risk of having our IRC channels hijacked as has
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happened to other OSS communities.
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We all agreed that this move away from ``Freenode`` needs to be a
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community-wide move to the same, new IRC network for all projects to avoid
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splintering the community. We decided to switch the IRC network to
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``OFTC`` according to our long-standing evacuation plan[7].
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- [1] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openstack-irc
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- [2] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-May/022468.html
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- [3] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-May/022539.html
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- [4] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-May/022675.html
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- [5] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/feedback-on-freenode
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- [6] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-May/022718.html
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- [7] https://www.oftc.net/
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