[openstack-dev] The root-cause for IRC private channels (was Re: [all][tc] Lets keep our community open, lets fight for it)

Michael Krotscheck krotscheck at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 16:07:14 UTC 2015


>
> You got my intention right: I wanted to understand better what lead
> some people to create a private channel, what were their needs.


I'm in a passworded channel, where the majority of members work on
OpenStack, but whose common denominator is "We're in the same
organizational unit in HP". We talk about openstack, we talk about HP, we
talk about burning man, we talk about movies, good places to drink - it's a
nice little backchannel of idle chatter. There have been a few times when
things related to OpenStack came up, and in that case we've booted the
topic to a public channel (There was an example just yesterday). Either
way, in this case a private channel was created because we could
potentially be discussing corporate things, it's more analogous to your
Teams' internal Hipchat or IRC server (in fact, it started in HipChat, and
then we were all 'why do we have to use another chat client' and that ended
that).

So there's one use case.

Michael
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