After some consultation with a freenode oper, it seems that there is a
rather humongous backlog of group registration forms that have been
filled and are waiting for processing ("thousands"), but if a software
project needs their group registration processed in order to regain
control of a channel, the registration request can be prioritized
( http://blog.freenode.net/2010/06/group-registration-form-verifications/
).-Keshav On Dec 14, 5:30 pm, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's actually a freenode policy which recommends against using > "primary channels" (ones that start with # and not ##) unless they're > associated with a "primary group", which is basically a software > project registered with freenode and with known contact persons. Has > anyone tried applying for "sage"? It is not currently taken > (seehttp://freenode.net/primary_groups.shtml), and someone who registers > the primary group "sage" would then have control over any channel of > the form "#sage-*", which at this point would include #sage-devel and > #sage-support. (This also means that if someone else does it first, we > could get kicked out...) Another perk of group registration is that we > would be able to give people sage cloaks (so that their hostmask would > display as, say, usern...@sage/username rather than > usern...@host.mask ). Maybe we could match these with trac accounts, > or something. > > The group registration page is > athttp://freenode.net/group_registration_form.php > . More details about the process can be found > athttp://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml > . I would do this myself, but only a primary spokesperson for the > project is supposed to submit a request, and I obviously don't fit > that criterion! :) > > -Keshav > > On Dec 14, 5:04 pm, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > > > On 14 Dez., 08:09, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The #sage-devel IRC channel is not currently registered in anyone's > > > name on the freenode network (was it ever?), which means that nobody > > > can obtain operator privileges in it unless everyone leaves, the > > > channel thus gets purged, and then someone joins it to "found" it > > > again. > > > > Could some maintainer of this mailing list perhaps take the issue up > > > with the freenode staff? As far as I am aware, they will often help > > > you to reclaim an ownerless channel by registering it in your name if > > > you can provide good reasons why you deserve to own it. > > > > I mention this because the channel topic currently reads "stable: > > > 4.3.1 | dev: 4.3.2.alpha1", which is rather outdated, and to change > > > the topic one needs operator privileges. At least one visitor to the > > > channel has been confused by this outdated topic and was trying > > > install 4.3.1, so I figured it might be a good idea to bring this up. > > > Sad enough, a known issue (since February). > > > Some people have written to freenode multiple times, no response / > > progress so far AFAIK. > > > -Leif > > > P.S.: There's an alternate channel (#sagemath) owned by Harald Schilly > > and Dan Drake, but few people use it... (and it seems even less want > > to leave #sage-devel ;-) ). -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
