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+1, It's always very confusing the first time.

Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Tony Breeds wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> Confusion
>>>> =========
>>>>      So this is really quite trivial.  As you can see above we don't have an
>>>> #openstack-meeting-2 channel the ...-alt is clearly that, but still people are
>>>> confused.  How would people feel about creating #openstack-meeting-2 and making
>>>> it redirect to #openstack-meeting-alt?
>>> I'd rather standardize and rename -alt to -2 (i.e. redirect -alt to -2
>>> on IRC, and bulk-change all meetings YAML from -alt to -2).
>> I wanted to go the other way as it's slightly less impactful. Most people grok
>> that '-alt' == '-2'.  if we redirect from 2 ->  alt it's only a few people
>> that transparently get redirected.
>>
>> If we do it the other way around everyone already in -alt needs to move.
>
> I think it's a one-time cost to solve the confusion over the long run,
> rather than keep the -alt non-standard construct forever. People have to
> join new meeting channels regularly, it's not as if you'd "lose" people
> in the process.
>
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