Open Stack

++, OFTC looks nice.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 11:12:13AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
>> On 04/03/14 11:01, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> >James E. Blair wrote:
>> >>Freenode has been having a rough time lately due to a series of DDoS
>> >>attacks which have been increasingly disruptive to collaboration.
>> >>Fortunately there's an alternative.
>> >>
>> >>OFTC <URL:http://www.oftc.net/> is a robust and established alternative
>> >>to Freenode.  It is a smaller network whose mission statement makes it a
>> >>less attractive target.  It's significantly more stable than Freenode
>> >>and has friendly and responsive operators.  The infrastructure team has
>> >>been exploring this area and we think OpenStack should move to using
>> >>OFTC.
>> >
>> >There is quite a bit of literature out there pointing to Freenode, like
>> >presentation slides from old conferences. We should expect people to
>> >continue to join Freenode's channels forever. I don't think staying a
>> >few weeks on those channels to redirect misled people will be nearly
>> >enough. Could we have a longer plan ? Like advertisement bots that would
>> >advise every n hours to join the right servers ?
>>
>> Why not just set /topic to tell people to connect to OFTC and join there?
>
> That's certainly something you want todo, but IME of moving IRC channels
> in the past, plenty of people will never look at the #topic :-( You want
> to be more aggressive like setting channel permissions to block anyone
> except admins from speaking in the channel. Then set a bot with admin
> rights to spam the channel once an hour telling people to go elsewhere.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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Sergey Lukjanov
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