----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Burns" <[email protected]> > To: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 8:37:32 PM > Subject: Re: freenode vs. oftc > > On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:05 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > > On 03/12/2012 12:39 PM, Perry Myers wrote: > > > > > We'll keep the #ovirt channel on Freenode open however, if for no > > > other reason than to redirect folks to the OFTC channel > > > > How about this: > > > > * Keep OFTC as canonical channel. > > * Ask everyone to also lurk on the Freenode channel. > > ** By lurking we shorten the time on discussions in this > > other-major-IRC community. > > * Allow conversations to flourish on Freenode, but redirect back to > > OFTC channel. > > * See what happens over time. > > > > We can have ovirtbot on the Freenode channel, so that channel sees > > the > > activity and so forth. This also allows people to turn a discussion > > in > > to a meeting simply so they can get a log (and #info, #action, > > etc.) > > for sharing with the mailing list later. > > I think I'd much rather have a handful of people lurk in the freenode > channel and point discussion questions to OFTC. I think that > freenode > has a much larger usage base, so keeping a channel there where we can > point people to the right place is smart, but I don't know about > having > both channels active for discussions. > > IMHO, we should keep all discussions/meetings on the OFTC channel and > simply redirect people from the freenode channel to OFTC. We could > even > have a join message on the channel that says something like "Thank > you > for your interest in the oVirt Project. Our primary IRC channel is > #ovirt on OFTC. Please ask your questions there."
Usually this is done by registering the channel, and setting it up to kick everyone who joins with a kick message indicating where to go/what to do. If you leave any possibility for joining/lurking you end up with two communities for active discussion which in my opinion is far worse that just happening to be on a 'less popular' network. Steve _______________________________________________ Arch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
