On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I idle in #scipy and have op in there. I’m happy start idling in #numpy > and be op if the community is willing to let me. > Thanks Nathan. Sounds useful. There's also a Gitter numpy channel. AFAIK few/none core devs are regularly active on either IRC or Gitter. I would suggest that we document both these channels as community-run at https://scipy.org/scipylib/mailing-lists.html, and give Nathan and others who are interested the permissions they need. I think our official recommendation for usage questions is StackOverflow. Cheers, Ralf I’m also in the process of getting ops for #matplotlib for similar > spam-related reasons. I’d say all the scientific python IRC channels I’m in > get a decent amount of traffic (perhaps 10% of the number of questions that > get asked on StackOverflow) and it’s a good venue for asking quick > questions. Let’s hope that forcing people to register doesn’t kill that, > although there’s not much we can do given the spam attack. > > Nathan > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:03 PM Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Over the past few days spambots have been hitting freenode's IRC >> channels[0, 1]. It turns out the #numpy channel has no operator, so we >> cannot make the channel mode "|+q $~a"[2] - i.e. only registered >> freenode users can talk but anyone can listen. >> >> I was in touch with the freenode staff, they requested that someone from >> the steering council reach out to them at ||proje...@freenode.net, here >> is the quote from the discussion: >> >> " >> it's pretty much a matter of them sending an email telling us who they'd >> like to represent them on freenode, which channels and cloak namespaces >> they want, and any info we might need on the project >> " >> >> In the mean time they set the channel mode appropriately, so this is >> also a notice that if you want to chat on the #numpy IRC channel you >> need to register. >> >> Hope someone from the council picks this up and reaches out to them, and >> will decide who is to able to become channel operators (the recommended >> practice is to use it like sudo, only assume the role when needed then >> turn it back off). >> >> Matti >> >> [0] https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack >> [1] https://freenode.net/news/spam-shake >> [2] https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201808/fighting_spam_on_freenode.html >> | >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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