On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:16 AM Quentin Schulz <
quentin.schulz@streamunlimited.com> wrote:

> Hi Khem, all,
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 9:56 AM Nicolas Dechesne
> > <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:49 PM Jasper Orschulko <
> Jasper.Orschulko@iris-sensing.com> wrote:
> > >>
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> > >> Dear all,
> > >>
> > >> there have been recent reports of a hostile takeover of the freenode
> > >> service, as described in
> > >> https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409
> > >>
> > >> The Yocto Project should verify these reports and take the necessary
> > >> actions, in order to protect its users.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for your email. We are aware, and have started to look into
> that.
> > >
> > > It looks like some open source communities have started to move to
> https://www.oftc.net/ or https://libera.chat/.. If anyone wants to bring
> any insights or recommendations... feel free!
> >
> > perhaps good time to consider matrix
> >
>
> I disagree. Matrix just does not work. I've been using with a few
> friends with mixed homeservers, chat.privacytools.io, matrix.org,
> converser.eu and self-hosted homeservers... I've sometimes not received
> tens of messages in a row, usually for a duration of at least 15 mins
> and there's obviously no indication whatsoever that I didn't receive
> messages except that the discussion does not make sense at all. And this
> happened to three other people on the room, each on a different homeserver
> than the other, so not a PEBKAC :) Sometimes there are delays for
> messages too (I've seen 30min delays), so the whole context is lost.
>
> For a federated chat solution, that's really a bummer that its main
> feature is just so buggy it's unusable.
>
> If YP is ok with potentially not receiving questions or having people
> ask questions and not receive answers, then fine by me :)
>
> I'm probably among the small (?) minority of people experiencing those
> issues but that's not a bet I'd take with my projects.
>
> My 2¢.
>

I think the question of setting up Matrix for our community is a valid
question, though I think it's orthogonal to the current problem. If
freenode goes away , we need an alternate plan to move *right away* to
another IRC server. If we want to setup addition communications means (such
as Matrix or anything else) that needs to be discussed and it might take
more time.


>
> Cheers,
> Quentin
>