Open Stack

On 3/9/2016 11:57 AM, Louis Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Matt Riedemann
> <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Someone showed up in the -stable channel this morning asking for help with
>> packaging. I gather they were there because the IRC wiki [1] says the
>> #openstack-stable channel is also for packaging discussions, given -stable
>> originated from distro people.
>>
>> I redirected them to https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Packaging which points
>> to https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PackagerResources which says:
>>
>> "The #openstack-packaging channel on Freenode is available for packaging
>> collaboration and discussion."
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> However, you have to apparently be invited to join the elite
>> #openstack-packaging channel.
>>
>> What gives? Is that channel dead? Is there something else? Is there a secret
>> handshake I can learn to palms to grease to get in?
>
>  From ChanServ:
>
> 17:55:03 -ChanServ(ChanServ at services.)- Information on #openstack-packaging:
> 17:55:03 -ChanServ(ChanServ at services.)- Registered : Nov 11 18:59:55
> 2011 (4y 17w 0d ago)
> 17:55:03 -ChanServ(ChanServ at services.)- Last used  : (about 75 weeks ago)
> 17:55:03 -ChanServ(ChanServ at services.)- Mode lock  : +imnstf #openstack-stable
> 17:55:03 -ChanServ(ChanServ at services.)- Flags      : KEEPTOPIC
> TOPICLOCK GUARD PRIVATE
> 17:55:03 -ChanServ(ChanServ at services.)- *** End of Info ***
>
> It doesn't look like it's been used in a long time (75 weeks).
>
> Louis
>
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Ha, the irony.

OK, so I thought awhile back, around YVR summit time, there was a group 
of different packagers from different distros (debian/red 
hat/fedora/suse) that were working together on some common tooling.

Is that still a thing and if so, do they congregate somewhere? Because 
*that's* where I think people need to go, not the #openstack-stable channel.

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann