Retirement of IRC Services and KDETalk.net (Jabber)

[Christian]

Am Sonntag, 21. Mai 2023, 21:12:25 CEST schrieb Ben Cooksley:

Hi Ben, thanks for the answer,

> Pursuivant is responsible for the announcement of commits and bugs.
> As of late we have only seen removals of this functionality (see
> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/irc-notifications/-/commits/master?ref_type=
> heads) from channels, hence why i'm slating it for decommissioning.
> 
> > Bouncer wise: 30 connections isn't exactly none, especially if that
> > contains
> > active people. These would be forced to migrate to a service (and register
> > at
> > such) which is not under KDEs control and, as far as I am aware, has a
> > mandatory registration.  As far as memory serves some communities, e.g. I
> > think krita, still had active devs / maintainers on IRC.
> 
> Yes, there is a cost-benefit analysis to all services we run however - and
> if there is a minimal number of people benefiting from it, sometimes it is
> time to retire a service.

I guess we have at least found one community in KDE, a bigger one I'd say, 
that spoke up that they are using it, so maybe best check with them first. Also 
given that so far the vast majority of answers was not in favour of 
decommissioning, given the (from what I see) very low cost it should probably 
be re-evaluated.

Of course that doesn't apply to the systems that have to be replaced due to 
them no longer being maintained / supported, but unless we run into security 
issues it would be nice to have a, from what I gather already planned, 
replacement before they are taken out.

Kind regards, 

Christian