[openstack-dev] [all] Time to increase our IRC Meetings infrastructure?

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Wed Nov 25 09:28:42 UTC 2015


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.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)

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