FYI http://www.oftc.net/Services/#register-your-account
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:32 AM, James E. Blair <[email protected]>wrote: > Sean Dague <[email protected]> writes: > > [I don't have anything substantial to add to q1 right now, though it's a > good one.] > > > #2) how bad do we believe nick contention might be in this transition? > > We've got 1000+ people that have well known nicks on freenode, that > > might hit conflicts on oftc. > > Now might be a good time to go register your nick (and your casual > Friday nick as well) and see. OFTC has a similar policy to Freenode > around releasing nicks that have not been used in years, and the > operators in #oftc have been responsive to such requests. That way, if > this is a problem, we might find out early. > > > #3) while for IRC veterans this is a simple matter of changing a config > > in your IRC proxy, we have been training new folks for a long time (and > > all through our wiki and documentation) that Freenode is our place. That > > might have required some of these folks to get firewall rules for > > freenode created. What kind of timeline are you thinking about for the > > cutover to hopefully catch all these folks? > > Good point (though with Freenode's constant server rotation, I wonder > how many folks actually have IP-based firewall rules [as opposed to just > a port rule which should work for OFTC as well]). > > I was thinking about a month, for starters. That gives us plenty of > time for notice, and early April puts us in the RC phase but not too > close to the release. If we decide to proceed but feel this isn't > enough time for this or other issues, we should probably push it to > early May (the "off week" after the release). > > -Jim > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- *Intel SSG/STO/DCST/CIT* 880 Zixing Road, Zizhu Science Park, Minhang District, 200241, Shanghai, China +862161166500
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