Taylor Blau wrote:

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 08:26:53PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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I don't see why we'd advertise #git@liberachat and not #git@freenode in
order to achieve that goal, the latter doesn't seem to be a graveyard
and is probably still more active. I don't see why we'd need to pick
between the two, any more than we'd pick between advertising
#git@liberachat and the git-users mailing list. Both currently seem like
useful venues for git users to go to get help.

Agreed.

The primary purpose of an IRC channel should be to help users, and if
right now the person that could help a user is on freenode, so be it.

If the people with some political alignment want to emphasize
LiberaChat, that's fine, but keep mentioning freenode.

git-scm.com was updated recently to mention LiberaChat instead of
Freenode [1]. That was done to reflect the reality of [2]. I suspect
that will have been the right decision, but in case it isn't (and
there are still people hanging around in #git on Freenode), then I'd
be in favor of mentioning both.

As of this moment (2021-05-27T22:20:00-0500) there's 324 people on
Libera.Chat, and 762 on freenode.

So yeah... I'd say there are still people hanging around in #git on
freenode.

For what it's worth, I also do not care about the Freenode versus
Libera (or vice-versa?) debacle. That said, I do think having one
central place for people to hang out is better than two (if for no
other reason than it's fewer places to check or go to if you want
help), but I would be fine if the status-quo were that there is an
active #git channel on both Libera and Freenode.

Sure, one would be better than two, but rarely can we pick the reality
that is better... Reality just is.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras