On Wednesday, 1 August 2018 12:49:13 CEST Andrey Kurilin wrote: > Hey Ian and stackers! > > ср, 1 авг. 2018 г. в 8:45, Ian Wienand <iwien...@redhat.com>: > > Hello, > > > > It seems freenode is currently receiving a lot of unsolicited traffic > > across all channels. The freenode team are aware [1] and doing their > > best. > > > > There are not really a lot of options. We can set "+r" on channels > > which means only nickserv registered users can join channels. We have > > traditionally avoided this, because it is yet one more barrier to > > communication when many are already unfamiliar with IRC access. > > However, having channels filled with irrelevant messages is also not > > very accessible. > > > > This is temporarily enabled in #openstack-infra for the time being, so > > we can co-ordinate without interruption. > > > > Thankfully AFAIK we have not needed an abuse policy on this before; > > but I guess we are the point we need some sort of coordinated > > response. > > > > I'd suggest to start, people with an interest in a channel can request > > +r from an IRC admin in #openstack-infra and we track it at [2] > > > > Longer term ... suggestions welcome? :) > > Move to Slack? We can provide auto-sending to emails invitations for > joining by clicking the button on some page at openstack.org. It will not > add more berrier for new contributors and, at the same time, this way will > give some base filtering by emails at least.
No, please no. If we need to move to another service, better go to a FLOSS one, like Matrix.org, or others. Ciao -- Luigi __________________________________________________________________________ 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
