Stephen Gran wrote: > On 04/03/14 11:01, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> James E. Blair wrote: >>> Freenode has been having a rough time lately due to a series of DDoS >>> attacks which have been increasingly disruptive to collaboration. >>> Fortunately there's an alternative. >>> >>> OFTC <URL:http://www.oftc.net/> is a robust and established alternative >>> to Freenode. It is a smaller network whose mission statement makes it a >>> less attractive target. It's significantly more stable than Freenode >>> and has friendly and responsive operators. The infrastructure team has >>> been exploring this area and we think OpenStack should move to using >>> OFTC. >> >> There is quite a bit of literature out there pointing to Freenode, like >> presentation slides from old conferences. We should expect people to >> continue to join Freenode's channels forever. I don't think staying a >> few weeks on those channels to redirect misled people will be nearly >> enough. Could we have a longer plan ? Like advertisement bots that would >> advise every n hours to join the right servers ? > > Why not just set /topic to tell people to connect to OFTC and join there?
We certainly would set /topic, but a lot of people ignore channel topics (and a lot of IRC clients fail to display them). But if they read the channel, they just can't ignore the public service announcement bots :) -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
