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master dd3f6b1 3/4: * etc/NEWS: Shorten entry on move to Libera.Chat.
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
master dd3f6b1 3/4: * etc/NEWS: Shorten entry on move to Libera.Chat. |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 17:42:40 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit dd3f6b13f673433e590c55b24232cf0a7e70de6e
Author: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Commit: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
* etc/NEWS: Shorten entry on move to Libera.Chat.
---
etc/NEWS | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 5c78189..afeeeb0 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -827,16 +827,10 @@ Emacs now supports 256 color display on the 'st' terminal
emulator.
+++
*** 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:
+The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project have 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