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

[Nicolás Alvarez]

El mié, 19 de may. de 2021 a la(s) 14:53, Carl Schwan
(carl at carlschwan.eu) escribió:
>
> 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

Aren't they sponsors? We can't *just* remove them from the website...

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Nicolás