[Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC

[Jason H]

> >> I would like to get back to doing more of our development discussions out in the open
> >> (like it should be), but right now IRC is not something I want to go back to for
> >> that.
> >
> > I also think that having development related discussions in internal Teams channels
> > is counterproductive not only for the parts of the community that cannot participate.
>
> I claim that having relevant development discussions in any chat is
> wrong. If these discussions are significantly more than a quick
> brainstorming, they belong onto the mailing list or into Gerrit,
> depending on their maturity. These services also meet the demands of
> getting history and looking at an archive.

I appreciate that the IRC meetings about releases are published.