[Numpy-discussion] Taking back control of the #numpy irc channel (original) (raw)

Sebastian Berg sebastian at sipsolutions.net
Tue Aug 7 07:34:29 EDT 2018

On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 21:52 -0700, Ralf Gommers wrote:

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.co_ _m> wrote: > Hi, > > I idle in #scipy and have op in there. I’m happy start idling in > #numpy and be op if the community is willing to let me. > Thanks Nathan. Sounds useful.

Sounds good. I haven't really hung out there for a long time (frankly, I never hung out in #numpy, I thought people just use #scipy).

Can we just give a few names (such as Matti, Nathan, maybe me, anyone else right now?) and add others later ourselves? I can get in contact with freenode (unless someone already did).

There's also a Gitter numpy channel. AFAIK few/none core devs are regularly active on either IRC or Gitter. I would suggest that we document both these channels as community-run at https://scipy.org/scipylib/mailing-lists.html, and give Nathan and others who are interested the permissions they need.

Yeah, the gitter seems pretty inactive as well. But I guess it doesn't hurt to mention them.

I think our official recommendation for usage questions is StackOverflow.

Cheers, Ralf

> I’m also in the process of getting ops for #matplotlib for similar > spam-related reasons. I’d say all the scientific python IRC > channels I’m in get a decent amount of traffic (perhaps 10% of the > number of questions that get asked on StackOverflow) and it’s a > good venue for asking quick questions. Let’s hope that forcing > people to register doesn’t kill that, although there’s not much we > can do given the spam attack. > > Nathan > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:03 PM Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Over the past few days spambots have been hitting freenode's IRC > > channels[0, 1]. It turns out the #numpy channel has no operator, > > so we > > cannot make the channel mode "|+q $~a"[2] - i.e. only registered > > freenode users can talk but anyone can listen. > > > > I was in touch with the freenode staff, they requested that > > someone from > > the steering council reach out to them at ||projects at freenode.net > > , here > > is the quote from the discussion: > > > > " > > it's pretty much a matter of them sending an email telling us who > > they'd > > like to represent them on freenode, which channels and cloak > > namespaces > > they want, and any info we might need on the project > > " > > > > In the mean time they set the channel mode appropriately, so this > > is > > also a notice that if you want to chat on the #numpy IRC channel > > you > > need to register. > > > > Hope someone from the council picks this up and reaches out to > > them, and > > will decide who is to able to become channel operators (the > > recommended > > practice is to use it like sudo, only assume the role when needed > > then > > turn it back off). > > > > Matti > > > > [0] https://freenode.net/news/spambot-attack > > [1] https://freenode.net/news/spam-shake > > [2] https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201808/fightingspamonfreeno > > de.html > > | _> > ________________________ > > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > > NumPy-Discussion at python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _> ________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion at python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >

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