Re: master 931a898: * etc/NEWS: Announce update of IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat.

[Stefan Kangas]

bandali@gnu.org (Amin Bandali) writes:

> branch: master
> commit 931a898776065bf8f286c4d6491aebb782863c99
> Author: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
> Commit: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
>
>     * etc/NEWS: Announce update of IRC-related references to point to 
> Libera.Chat.
>
>     Also remove the note about freenode subdomain change, as it's not
>     relevant anymore.

Thanks.  One minor comment below.

> --- a/etc/NEWS
> +++ b/etc/NEWS
> @@ -807,11 +807,28 @@ leak information from the reporting user.
>  *** Rudimentary support for the 'st' terminal emulator.
>  Emacs now supports 256 color display on the 'st' terminal emulator.
>
> ----
> -*** Prefer "chat.freenode.net" to "irc.freenode.net".
> -"chat.freenode.net" has been the preferred address for connecting to the
> -Freenode IRC network for years now.  Occurrences of "irc.freenode.net"
> -have been replaced with "chat.freenode.net" throughout Emacs.
> ++++
> +*** Update IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat.
> +In June 2021, the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project moved
> +their official IRC channels from the Freenode network to Libera.Chat
> +in the aftermath of the changes in Freenode's governance structure and
> +policies in May and June 2021.  The decision-making process took into
> +account the feedback received from the community against a set of
> +criteria devised by a working group drawn from both GNU and the FSF
> +to gauge a chat network's acceptability to software freedom activists.
> +
> +For the original announcement and the follow-up update, including more
> +details, see:

Do we need to go into all that detail?  Would it be enough to just write
something like:

*** Update IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat.
The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project has moved their
official IRC channels from the Freenode network to Libera.Chat.  For the
original announcement and the follow-up update, including more details,
see:

> +
> +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-06/msg00005.html
> +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-06/msg00007.html
> +
> +Given the relocation of GNU and FSF's official IRC channels, as well
> +as #emacs and various other Emacs-themed channels (see the link below)
> +to Libera.Chat, IRC-related references in the Emacs repository have
> +now been updated to point to Libera.Chat.
> +
> +https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2021-06/msg00000.html