On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 21:55 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
As the "super-op" for all things Fedora/Red Hat IRC, I
agree with pretty
much everything Kevin has said. I've been planning to write an IRC "code
of conduct" for some time, but I've not yet gotten that far down my todo
list.
I would be more than willing to assist in working on the "code of
conduct" with you. It has one thing that I would have liked to see from
day one.
A few things we should consider:
1. Office hours. People who sign up to be "official" helpers during a
regular shift can get +v, making them easily identifiable to people
looking for help. We can document this in the topic (or in a FAQ URL).
I am willing to take shifts as both "Official Helper" and/or OP as
needed. I am in #fedora almost every night between 6pm and 11pm EST, so
it would not be much of an issue.
2. Auditing. It might not be a bad idea to put a very simple logging bot
in #fedora which just logs the channel text. This would also help us
track abuse in a more reliable way than how it is now ("This guy is
being abusive.")
I think auditing would be great, as most of us who help and/or
participate currently as ops already do logging just so we see what the
hot-topics are, and to identify potential trouble makers in the channel.
Also most of the current ops communicate regularly which helps.
We may need to take a look at who the ops are currently. Folks who
haven't been active or helpful may need to be replaced.
There are a few of those such as corwyn who is no longer involved in
fedora or fedora-unity/
WRT bots, we just need to keep the noise level from any bots to a
bare
minimum. Perhaps tie it into a user list so that helpers and chanops can
have it speak in channel, and all other queries go to the user in
privmsg.
I see this as important as once people determine there is a bot in the
channel tend to play with the bot to see what it can do.
V/R
Scott Glaser