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.
I think we could work on such at a meeting and then run it by spot for
correction/checkover.
> 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.
Yeah, me too. Hopefully we get enough people to pull things off.
> 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.
Yeah, also good.
> 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/
Yeah, the list will need updating.
> 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.
Agreed. It shouldn't normally answer users on channel at least.
V/R
Scott Glaser
kevin