Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2017-07-19 19:24:00 +0000: > For those who are unaware, Freenode doesn't allow any one user to > /join more than 120 channels concurrently. This has become a > challenge for some of the community's IRC bots in the past year, > most recently the "openstack" meetbot (which not only handles > meetings but also takes care of channel logging to > eavesdrop.openstack.org and does the nifty bug number resolution > some people seem to like). > > I have run some rudimentary analysis and come up with the following > list of channels which have had fewer than 10 lines said by anyone > besides a bot over the past three months: > > #craton > #openstack-api > #openstack-app-catalog > #openstack-bareon > #openstack-cloudpulse > #openstack-community > #openstack-cue > #openstack-diversity > #openstack-gluon > #openstack-gslb > #openstack-ko > #openstack-kubernetes > #openstack-networking-cisco > #openstack-neutron-release > #openstack-opw > #openstack-pkg > #openstack-product > #openstack-python3 > #openstack-quota > #openstack-rating > #openstack-solar > #openstack-swauth > #openstack-ux > #openstack-vmware-nsx > #openstack-zephyr > > I have a feeling many of these are either no longer needed, or what > little and infrequent conversation they get used for could just as > easily happen in a general channel like #openstack-dev or #openstack > or maybe in the more active channel of their parent team for some > subteams. Who would miss these if we ceased logging/using them? Does > anyone want to help by asking around to people who might not see > this thread, maybe by popping into those channels and seeing if any > of the sleeping denizens awaken and say they still want to keep it > around? > > Ultimately we should improve our meetbot deployment to support > sharding channels across multiple bots, but that will take some time > to implement and needs volunteers willing to work on it. In the > meantime we're running with the meetbot present in 120 channels and > have at least one new channel that desires logging and can't get it > until we whittle that number down.
All of those look like good candidates for cleanup. We could easily move #openstack-python3 to #openstack-dev. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
