The status of freenode (the IRC network used by KDE)

[Carl Schwan]

Le mercredi, mai 19, 2021 7:45 PM, Martin Flöser <mgraesslin at kde.org> a écrit :

> Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021, 10:34:26 CEST schrieb Christian:
>
> > Dear KDE community,
> > KDE has been using the free services of the freenode IRC networks for a
> > little bit more than two decades, and hopefully happily and successfully
> > so.
>
> Thanks for informing us. This sounds horrible and must have been a very
> stressful time for all of you staffers.
>
> > Due to this leakage, Andrew Lee (former PIA/LTM, now shells.com)
> > learned of the new situation and asked democratically elected
> > freenode volunteers to step down from their position, as seen in the
> > logs linked on [4] [5] [6]
> > Therefore making the takover attempt and some details public.
>
> Given that this is driven byshells.com I think the KDE community should step
> up and remove all references to shells.com. Their behavior in this case goes
> clearly against our values.

I agree and created two merge requests:

* https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/merge_requests/104
* https://invent.kde.org/websites/neon-kde-org/-/merge_requests/8

I would prefer if it's someone who was involved with setting this up that merges
these two MRs. CC Jonathan and Aleix

Cheers,
Carl
>
> Best regards
> Martin Flöser