On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:23 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebast...@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 22:07 -0700, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolution > > s.net> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 21:52 -0700, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343@gmai > > > l.co > > > > m> 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. > > > > > > > > > > Sounds good. I haven't really hung out there for a long time > > > (frankly, > > > I never hung out in #numpy, I thought people just use #scipy). > > > > > > Can we just give a few names (such as Matti, Nathan, maybe me, > > > anyone > > > else right now?) and add others later ourselves? > > > I can get in contact with freenode (unless someone already did). > > > > Thanks Sebastian. Go ahead I'd say. > > > Will do, just realized looking at it. The Steering Council list, etc. > has a list of names, but not email addresses (or PGP keys). I do not > remember, was that intentional or not? I have a vague memory of that being intentional, but not sure. I don't mind making email addresses public; they can be found from git commit logs and mailing lists anyway, so why make life difficult for whomever wants to reach us. > Also I am not sure if the > steering council email address is published anywhere, IIRC it was > possible for anyone to send an email to it (OTOH, it would be nice to > not catch spam there, so maybe it is fine to ask for the address > first). > Google's spam filters are pretty good. For the record, it is numpy-steering-coun...@googlegroups.com Cheers, Ralf > > - Sebastian > > > > > Ralf > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, the gitter seems pretty inactive as well. But I guess it > > > doesn't > > > hurt to mention them. > > > > > > - Sebastian > > > > > > > > > > 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.picus@gmail.c > > > om> > > > > > 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 ||projects@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_fr > > > eeno > > > > > > de.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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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