Looks like the resignations became official now. For those looking to migrate: https://oragono.io/ is great for self-hosting IRC.

This doesn't sound good...

I really appreciate the efforts putting this together but probably better to wait for something "official". After reading the logs a bit I also tend more to "sympathise" with the volunteer staff side but still can't help feeling something is missing there...

The freenode network is a very important part of OS project's infrastructure and major disruptions to it will have negative effects at least in the short run. So of course I hope all this gets solved somehow without much disruption...but if that isn't possible I hope at least for enough warning time in advance to allow projects to make an informed decision on where to move their channels. And for me as "simple" user personally for someone telling me if and when I have to change my login defaults to a new network ;).