Definitely it would be a bad idea to merge RC feed irc with some irc for people. If there was any new network it would be probably configured from scratch and unrelated to ratircd RC feed run on. Anyway I don't think that would happen. This isn't even discussion about that. We are discussing option to donate server to freenode here :-)
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:24 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> But I am not talking about creating a new network, but providing some >> of our resources to freenode. They would likely operate and manage it >> without assistance from wmf ops. > > (Last I saw) Freenode wants full root access on the boxes, Something > that ops more than likely won't want to do if its sitting on our > networks. > > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> On other hand I disagree that maintaining an irc network is so >> complicated, given that we have so many volunteers who would >> eventually help with that. But staying on freenode would make it >> easier for us, that's true. > > One of the reason the ops (Tim S. especially) like our current IRC > setup is because its turn on and forget about it for a few years, That > would more than likely not be if the case if we started opening up for > people to talk on it and etc, where as we currently have a fully > functioning and "fine" system operating system (which no one has > really given any reasons against really, apart from the group contacts > thing, which i see as a non issue at current). > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
