On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 08:27:58AM -0500, Sean Dague wrote: > On 01/13/2015 08:01 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > Kuvaja, Erno wrote: > >> [...] > >> 1) One does not need to express themselves in a way that is for public. ( > >> Misunderstandings can be corrected on the fly if needed. ) There is no > >> need to explain to anyone reading the logs what you actually meant during > >> the conversation month ago. > >> 2) there is level of confidentiality within that defined audience. ( For > >> example someone not familiar with the processes thinks they have found > >> security vulnerability and comes to the IRC-channel to ask second opinion. > >> Those details are not public and that bug can still be raised and dealt > >> properly. Once the discussion is logged and the logs are publicly > >> available the details are publicly available as well. ) > >> 3) That defined audience does not usually limit content. I have no problem > >> to throw my e-mail address, phone number etc. into the channel, I would > >> not yell them out publicly. > >> [...] > > > > All 3 arguments point to issues you have with *public* channels, not > > *logged* channels. > > > > Our IRC channels are, in effect, already public. Anyone can join them, > > anyone can log them. An embargoed vulnerability discussed on an IRC > > channel (logged or not) should be considered leaked. I agree that > > logging makes it easier for random people to access that already-public > > information, but you can't consider an IRC channel private (and change > > your communication style or content) because it's not logged by eavesdrop. > > > > What you seem to be after is a private, invitation-only IRC channel. > > That's an orthogonal issue to the concept of logging. > > Honestly, I do think it's probably worth having an OpenStack wide bit of > guidance here, especially now that every project has felt the need to > spin up their own channel instead of using #openstack-dev (which is > currently mostly void of content). > > Not having these logs means we often are missing important parts of > historical context when decisions are made, because a lot more design is > happening in unarchived formats than archived ones.
Yep, there have been a number of occassions when conversations that are relevant to my work have taken place on IRC channels for projects that I don't normally participate in. It would have been useful to be able to see the logs and in some cases the channels were not logged. I think that the project should log all #openstack* IRC channels unconditionally to maximise the spread of knowledge and improve/facilitate collaboration & communication between teams. We are a supposedly open, collaborative project after all. 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 Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
