There's actually a freenode policy which recommends against using "primary channels" (ones that start with # and not ##) unless they're associated with a "primary group", which is basically a software project registered with freenode and with known contact persons. Has anyone tried applying for "sage"? It is not currently taken (see http://freenode.net/primary_groups.shtml ), and someone who registers the primary group "sage" would then have control over any channel of the form "#sage-*", which at this point would include #sage-devel and #sage-support. (This also means that if someone else does it first, we could get kicked out...) Another perk of group registration is that we would be able to give people sage cloaks (so that their hostmask would display as, say, usern...@sage/username rather than usern...@host.mask ). Maybe we could match these with trac accounts, or something.
The group registration page is at http://freenode.net/group_registration_form.php . More details about the process can be found at http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml . I would do this myself, but only a primary spokesperson for the project is supposed to submit a request, and I obviously don't fit that criterion! :) -Keshav On Dec 14, 5:04 pm, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > On 14 Dez., 08:09, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > The #sage-devel IRC channel is not currently registered in anyone's > > name on the freenode network (was it ever?), which means that nobody > > can obtain operator privileges in it unless everyone leaves, the > > channel thus gets purged, and then someone joins it to "found" it > > again. > > > Could some maintainer of this mailing list perhaps take the issue up > > with the freenode staff? As far as I am aware, they will often help > > you to reclaim an ownerless channel by registering it in your name if > > you can provide good reasons why you deserve to own it. > > > I mention this because the channel topic currently reads "stable: > > 4.3.1 | dev: 4.3.2.alpha1", which is rather outdated, and to change > > the topic one needs operator privileges. At least one visitor to the > > channel has been confused by this outdated topic and was trying > > install 4.3.1, so I figured it might be a good idea to bring this up. > > Sad enough, a known issue (since February). > > Some people have written to freenode multiple times, no response / > progress so far AFAIK. > > -Leif > > P.S.: There's an alternate channel (#sagemath) owned by Harald Schilly > and Dan Drake, but few people use it... (and it seems even less want > to leave #sage-devel ;-) ). -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
