[OpenStack Foundation] [all] IRC Channel Renames

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Thu Dec 17 11:43:01 UTC 2020


Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2020-12-16 09:03:28 +0100 (+0100), Dr. Jens Harbott wrote:
>> Am Di., 15. Dez. 2020 um 19:33 Uhr schrieb Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org>:
>>>
>>> On 2020-12-15 12:20:58 -0600 (-0600), Ryan Beisner wrote:
>>>> My $0.02 over lunch:  I think #openinfra-* would be a fitting move
>>>> with the same number of digits and a recognizable moniker.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> The blocker there is that we can't control the #openinfra-*
>>> namespace on Freenode because the #openinfra channel is already
>>> taken by the separate https://opensourceinfra.org/ community.
>>
>> It looks to me like this is mainly a project by pleia2, fellow
>> ex-infra-root, and also both the channel and the associated mailing
>> list don't look too active in recent years, so maybe we can get into
>> contact and consider some cooperation or possibly a handover?
> 
> [...] I'm happy to reach out to them and ask whether they're
> interested in having that become an Open Infrastructure Foundation
> general discussion channel or something, but keep in mind that not
> all the people involved in that community are necessarily fans of
> OpenStack or the foundation (even some who were previously
> contributors to OpenStack or to the Project Infrastructure team).

Seems worth a try! We should not assume that they will necessarily say no.

-- 
Thierry



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