Open Stack

On 2016-12-07 12:14:06 -0600 (-0600), Ian Cordasco wrote:
[...]
> So I'm all for non-official projects using their own channels for
> meetings. My only wish (as someone working on a non-official
> project) would be that we could use meeting bot the same way we
> would in a meeting channel.

It's the same actual bot instance that's also logging your channel
conversations (if you have channel logging to
eavesdrop.openstack.org), the only difference is that in meeting
channels we grant it the mode necessary to be able to change channel
topics. It will even work without that, you just don't get your
channel topic updated automagically during meetings. We can also
fairly easily control that access on a per-channel basis (we have a
separate accessbot which sets channel permissions for us so it's
just a matter of making a very small change to a data file in a Git
repo).

> If it requires standing up additional instances of the meeting
> bot, I think it's fair for the companies sponsoring those projects
> to help openstack-infra with that, and I'd be willing to throw my
> own time in there for that too if necessary.
[...]

It likely will soon regardless because Freenode doesn't let any user
join >120 channels at a time so we'll almost certainly need to shard
channels across multiple meetbot instances soon anyway. There's a
thread starting on the infra ML about hacking on meetbot in concert
with devs from the Fedora community too, which you might want to
jump in on:

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2016-December/004951.html

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Jeremy Stanley