Re: Moving IRC channel to libera.chat

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Le 14/06/2021 à 17:06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen a écrit :
>> Hi!
>
> Glad to meet you (and somewhat impressed, I must admit).
>
>> The FSF and GNU are moving to libera.chat
>>
>>      https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-06/msg00005.html
>>
>> As most channels already moved over the past weeks (#bootstrappable,
>> #emacs, #guile, #guix, #hurd, #ubuntu*, ...) I suggest for #lilypond to
>> also move (or "stay" with the original freenode staff as some call it).
>>
>> In anticipation of that (as most channels already moved), I have created
>> a #lilypond channel on libera.chat and applied for an official
>> registration.  Patches for the website attached.
>
> Like David, seconded. The move seems to have been a
> no-brainer in many projects (including Python, which
> is large enough for them not to make this decision on
> a whim!). It looks like Freenode made spectacularly
> bad decisions lately. Blocking channels because they
> mentioned the libera.chat alternative…

"Freenode made bad decisions" is a bit misleading since the vast bulk of
what constituted Freenode has moved on.  The person being in legal and
financial control over the operation of the server and site names has,
well, decided to do a Goneril.

> [David:]
>> +1, good thinking.  Anybody else opening a vicarious issue for carrying
>> along the patch, or should I do the honors?
>
> Here you go:
>
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/799
>
> (as a superficial detail, I squashed the commits just
> to follow modern practice of updating English documentation
> and translations at one time).

Thanks!

>> Greetings,
>> Janneke
>
> A side question: do I understand it correctly that
> Jan is your formal name and Janneke your nickname?
> I'm asking because a former contributor was called
> Janek, which confused me a lot in the first times.

The file DEDICATION in the LilyPond distribution may explain this to
some degree.

-- 
David Kastrup