From 931a898776065bf8f286c4d6491aebb782863c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amin Bandali Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:25:18 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] * 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. --- etc/NEWS | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 2644349aba2..515f8bac562 100644 --- 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: + +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 * Editing Changes in Emacs 28.1 -- 2.39.5