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<h1>Activity Report 2021 - Engineering</h1>
<p>Libera Chats engineering team is responsible for developing and maintaining the
software used to provide the IRC network and any auxiliary services as Libera
requires.</p>
<h2 id="team-organisation">Team organisation</h2>
<p>The engineering team ended the year with 14 members, up by 14 since last year.
We have been holding monthly development meetings since Liberas inception, but
have resolved to explore a more ticket-based way of working in addition to the
meetings next year, owing to a relatively large number of forgotten projects.</p>
<h2 id="activity">Activity</h2>
<p>The headline achievement of the engineering team this year must be getting
Libera off the ground at all, but weve kept busy since then. Apart from
replacing our ircd, the team has created at least seven bots, with functions
from automated spambot zapping to cloaking users on request, as well as various
quality-of-life improvements to our IRCd and services.</p>
<p>Weve also made strides towards a web-based registration confirmation flow,
which is now just waiting on integration work (we think).</p>
<p>Were aware that we have a lot of technical catching up to do to get IRC where
the modern FOSS community needs it to be. The engineering team has devoted some
time to this problem, and were hoping to announce more about our plans in that
direction soon.</p>
<h2 id="outlook">Outlook</h2>
<p>The engineering team has a challenging task ahead. But were optimistic about
what can be achieved, and we intend to experiment with new ways of working in
order to get there faster.</p>
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