Register Tahoe-LAFS project with Libera.Chat

[sajith]

See #3721 for background.

We have registered #tahoe-lafs IRC channel with irc.libera.chat's ChanServ. We probably should also register Tahoe-LAFS project with Libera.Chat. See their docs on ​project registration for details. Basically: "project registration allows your project or organisation to have an official representation on our services and relationship with us."

Advantages of registering a project are, to quote Libera.Chat's docs again:

• Channels in their namespace can be claimed
• Optional cloaks are available for members. These replace the hostname part with a custom string, e.g. @yourproject/developer/alex or @yourproject/taylor
• We offer to send messages about important releases or events of your project as a “wallop” message to all our users who opted in to receiving these

Those seem like good things, so I emailed them, and received this in response:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: amdj <redacted@libera.chat>
Reply-To: redacted@libera.chat
To: sajith@redacted
Subject: [Libera.Chat #423] Registering #tahoe-lafs
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 11:34:15 +0000

Hello!

Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you; we've been absolutely swamped
with a registration backlog, abuse mitigation, and network maintenance and
patching.

To assist with project verification, please perform the following:

1) Prove control over tahoe-lafs.org via either:
1A) Create the DNS TXT record libera-5kYx4CV2AJGv4dc2.tahoe-lafs.org
    (with any content)
1B) Create the file /.well-known/libera-5kYx4CV2AJGv4dc2.txt on the web
    server (with any content)

2) Prove control over the GitHub organisation via either:
2A) Creation of the source code repository
    https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/libera-5kYx4CV2AJGv4dc2 (with any content)
2B) Creation of the branch libera-5kYx4CV2AJGv4dc2 in the source code
    repository https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/ (with any content)

Regards,
Aaron Jones (amdj)
LiberaChat Staff

I can't do 1A, 1B, and 2A. I can do 2B. I could use this ticket number for creating a branch.

[sajith]

In PR ​1071, I created the branch libera-5kYx4CV2AJGv4dc2 in the GitHub project, and Libera.Chat staff used that to verify us.

Now #tahoe-lafs namespace is registered to the Tahoe-LAFS project. That means we can create and manage #tahoe-lafs-riffraff and the such, should we feel the urge to do so, I believe.

On irc.libera.chat, /msg ChanServ info #tahoe-lafs now returns:

-ChanServ- Information on #tahoe-lafs:
-ChanServ- Founder    : sajith, meejah, maylee, exarkun
-ChanServ- Successor  : libera-placeholder-account
-ChanServ- Registered : May 19 15:44:49 2021 +0000 (1w 5d 4h ago)
-ChanServ- URL        : https://tahoe-lafs.org/
-ChanServ- Flags      : SECURE KEEPTOPIC GUARD PUBACL
-ChanServ- The #tahoe-lafs namespace is registered to the Tahoe-LAFS project
-ChanServ- Public contacts: sajith, meejah, maylee, exarkun
-ChanServ- *** End of Info ***

I have asked to add exarkun, maylee, meejah, and myself as primary and public project contacts.

One of the project contacts should be able to join #libera-communities channel of irc.libera.chat and ask for a project cloak (tahoe-lafs/team/<nick>, tahoe-lafs/bot/<nick> and the such), in case we find that useful.

[exarkun]

Are there more steps to take to complete this?