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On Wednesday, 1 August 2018 12:49:13 CEST Andrey Kurilin wrote:
> Hey Ian and stackers!
> 
> ср, 1 авг. 2018 г. в 8:45, Ian Wienand <iwienand at redhat.com>:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > It seems freenode is currently receiving a lot of unsolicited traffic
> > across all channels.  The freenode team are aware [1] and doing their
> > best.
> > 
> > There are not really a lot of options.  We can set "+r" on channels
> > which means only nickserv registered users can join channels.  We have
> > traditionally avoided this, because it is yet one more barrier to
> > communication when many are already unfamiliar with IRC access.
> > However, having channels filled with irrelevant messages is also not
> > very accessible.
> > 
> > This is temporarily enabled in #openstack-infra for the time being, so
> > we can co-ordinate without interruption.
> > 
> > Thankfully AFAIK we have not needed an abuse policy on this before;
> > but I guess we are the point we need some sort of coordinated
> > response.
> > 
> > I'd suggest to start, people with an interest in a channel can request
> > +r from an IRC admin in #openstack-infra and we track it at [2]
> > 
> > Longer term ... suggestions welcome? :)
> 
> Move to Slack? We can provide auto-sending to emails invitations for
> joining by clicking the button on some page at openstack.org. It will not
> add more berrier for new contributors and, at the same time, this way will
> give some base filtering by emails at least.

No, please no. If we need to move to another service, better go to a FLOSS 
one, like Matrix.org, or others.

Ciao
-- 
Luigi