++, OFTC looks nice. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 11:12:13AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: >> On 04/03/14 11:01, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> >James E. Blair wrote: >> >>Freenode has been having a rough time lately due to a series of DDoS >> >>attacks which have been increasingly disruptive to collaboration. >> >>Fortunately there's an alternative. >> >> >> >>OFTC <URL:http://www.oftc.net/> is a robust and established alternative >> >>to Freenode. It is a smaller network whose mission statement makes it a >> >>less attractive target. It's significantly more stable than Freenode >> >>and has friendly and responsive operators. The infrastructure team has >> >>been exploring this area and we think OpenStack should move to using >> >>OFTC. >> > >> >There is quite a bit of literature out there pointing to Freenode, like >> >presentation slides from old conferences. We should expect people to >> >continue to join Freenode's channels forever. I don't think staying a >> >few weeks on those channels to redirect misled people will be nearly >> >enough. Could we have a longer plan ? Like advertisement bots that would >> >advise every n hours to join the right servers ? >> >> Why not just set /topic to tell people to connect to OFTC and join there? > > That's certainly something you want todo, but IME of moving IRC channels > in the past, plenty of people will never look at the #topic :-( You want > to be more aggressive like setting channel permissions to block anyone > except admins from speaking in the channel. Then set a bot with admin > rights to spam the channel once an hour telling people to go elsewhere. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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