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Great news! And I agree about giving the channel a breather, which will
also let us plan out for a smooth transition for those channels moving to
the new namespace.

Thanks,

Amy

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 3:14 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2020-12-17 12:43:01 +0100 (+0100), Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > 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.
>
> After talking to Lyz, that community has decided to relocate their
> discussions to the #opensourceinfra channel, so has granted control
> of #openinfra to us as of 2020-12-22 (and I officially added it to
> our channel access management bot last week). Conversations there
> aren't logged yet, and it would be nice of us to leave that channel
> itself unused and their forwarding address in the topic for a while
> still, but we should be able to proceed with making use of the
> namespace for renaming/recombining our existing foundation-specific
> channels to #openinfra-whatever as time permits.
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
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