Stefano Maffulli wrote: > On 08/29/2014 11:17 AM, John Garbutt wrote: >> After moving to use ZNC, I find IRC works much better for me now, but >> I am still learning really. > > There! this sentence has two very important points worth highlighting: > > 1- when people say IRC they mean IRC + a hack to overcome its limitation > 2- IRC+znc is complex, not many people are used to it
Note that ZNC is not the only IRC proxy out there. Bip is also working quite well. > I never used znc, refused to install, secure and maintain yet another > public facing service. For me IRC is: be there when it happens or read > the logs on eavesdrop, if needed. > > Recently I found out that there are znc services out there that could > make things simpler but they're not easy to join (at least the couple I > looked at). > > Would it make sense to offer znc as a service within the openstack project? We could at least document the steps required to set up a proxy. Or propose pre-configured images/containers for individuals to run "in the cloud". I agree with Ryan that running an IRC proxy for someone else creates... interesting privacy issues that may just hinder adoption of said solution. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev