The issue I ran into with IRC was a bit more obscure. "real IRC" is entirely blocked from all networks provided to me by my employer (even the office wifi).
The web interface I was using (irccloud) didn't work for nickname registration either. When trying real (non-web-wrapped) IRC from my laptop via an LTE hotspot it also failed. We eventually worked out that it's because Freenode has blacklisted large IP ranges including my AT&T service. Can't connect unless authenticated, can't register nickname for auth because not connected. The answer in that case is to register the nickname on http://webchat.freenode.net This "chicken and egg" problem is explained here: https://superuser.com/questions/1220409/irc-how-to-register-on-freenode-using-hexchat-when-i-get-disconnected-immediat Chris On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:18 AM Kendall Nelson <kennelso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:36 PM Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com> >> Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:13 PM >> Subject: Denver Ops Meetup post-mortem >> To: OpenStack Operators <openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org> >> >> >> Hello All, >> Last week we had a successful Ops Meetup embedded in the OpenStack >> Project Team Gathering in Denver. >> >> Despite generally being a useful gathering, there were definitely lessons >> learned and things to work on, so I thought it would be useful to share a >> post-mortem. I encourage everyone to share their thoughts on this as well. >> >> What went well: >> >> - some of the sessions were great and a lot of progress was made >> - overall attendance in the ops room was good >> - more developers were able to join the discussions >> - facilities were generally fine >> - some operators leveraged being at PTG to have useful involvement in >> other sessions/discussions such as Keystone, User Committee, Self-Healing >> SIG, not to mention the usual "hallway conversations", and similarly some >> project devs were able to bring pressing questions directly to operators. >> >> What didn't go so well: >> >> - Merging into upgrade SIG didn't go particularly well >> - fewer ops attended (in particular there were fewer from outside the US) >> - Some of the proposed sessions were not well vetted >> - some ops who did attend stated the event identity was diluted, it was >> less attractive >> - we tried to adjust the day 2 schedule to include late submissions, >> however it was probably too late in some cases >> >> I don't think it's so important to drill down into all the whys and >> wherefores of how we fell down here except to say that the ops meetups team >> is a small bunch of volunteers all with day jobs (presumably just like >> everyone else on this mailing list). The usual, basically. >> >> Much more important : what will be done to improve things going forward: >> >> - The User Committee has offered to get involved with the technical >> content. In particular to bring forward topics from other relevant events >> into the ops meetup planning process, and then take output from ops meetups >> forward to subsequent events. We (ops meetup team) have welcomed this. >> >> - The Ops Meetups Team will endeavor to start topic selection earlier and >> have a more critical approach. Having a longer list of possible sessions >> (when starting with material from earlier events) should make it at least >> possible to devise a better agenda. Agenda quality drives attendance to >> some extent and so can ensure a virtuous circle. >> >> - We need to work out whether we're doing fixed schedule events (similar >> to previous mid-cycle Ops Meetups) or fully flexible PTG-style events, but >> grafting one onto the other ad-hoc clearly is a terrible idea. This needs >> more discussion. >> >> - The Ops Meetups Team continues to explore strange new worlds, or at >> least get in touch with more and more OpenStack operators to find out what >> the meetups team and these events could do for them and hence drive the >> process better. One specific work item here is to help the (widely >> disparate) operator community with technical issues such as getting setup >> with the openstack git/gerrit and IRC. The latter is the preferred way for >> the community to meet, but is particularly difficult now with the >> registered nickname requirement. We will add help documentation on how to >> get over this hurdle. >> > > After you get onto freenode at IRC you can register your nickname with a > single command and then you should be able to join any of the channels. The > command you need: ' /msg nickserv register $PASSWORD $EMAIL_ADDRESS'. You > can find more instructions here about setting up IRC[1]. > > If you get stuck or have any questions, please let me know! I am happy to > help with the setup of IRC or gerrit or anything else that might be a > barrier. > > >> - YOUR SUGGESTION HERE >> >> Chris >> >> -- >> Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com> >> >> >> -- >> Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> 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 > > > -Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo) > > [1] https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/common/irc.html# > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com>
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