Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#6536 closed defect (fixed)

IRC #gdal channel topic still points to dead buildbot url

Reported by: strk Owned by: warmerdam
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: default Version: unspecified
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Jeff McKenna

Description

Better update the channel topic, or push harder to get buildbot resurrected (see osgeo:#1214)

Change History (8)

comment:1 by strk, 8 years ago

For the record (which may be of historical interest):

-!- Topic for #gdal: http://www.gdal.org | svn http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal | trac http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal | Logs at: 
          http://logs.qgis.org/gdal/ | buildbot http://buildbot.osgeo.org:8500/waterfall | Don't ask to ask, just ask
-!- Topic set by jmckenna [] [Mon Jan 26 20:15:25 2009]

comment:2 by Even Rouault, 8 years ago

Cc: Jeff McKenna added

Jeff, apparently you must have the rights to change the mesage of #gdal. Could you remove the mention to buildbot ? And the link to the logs of the channel is now http://irclogs.geoapt.com/gdal/

comment:3 by strk, 8 years ago

May I suggest to also give Even admin rights on the channel ?

comment:4 by Jeff McKenna, 8 years ago

Hi Even,

This is tricky. Even though I may have set the IRC "topic", often it is the case that that day (back in 2009 wow) I would ask someone in the channel who actually has "op" (operator) status for that #gdal channel, to give me permissions that day; then I change the topic. But then years later I get asked to do the same thing, but I am in fact not the channel "op" - this is exactly the case for the #mapserver channel. You can see the "ops" for #mapserver with the command:

/msg chanserv access #mapserver list

Which gives a list of ops:

Entry Nickname/Host          Flags
	ChanServ	----- ---------------------- -----
	ChanServ	1     spatialguru            +AFRefiorstv [modified 3y 40w 5d ago]
	ChanServ	2     hobu                   +AFRefiorstv [modified 3y 40w 5d ago]
	ChanServ	3     franck                 +AFRefiorstv [modified ? ago]
	ChanServ	4     aboudreault            +Aiotv [modified 3y 40w 5d ago]

Notice how "jmckenna" is not an "op". That means, that every year or so I get asked to change the topic in #mapserver but in fact I have no privileges; so then I ask around in the channel and someone grants my nick the permissions to change topic, for that day. But then years later I get asked again and I still don't have permissions...see the cycle? :)

In the case of #gdal we can check who is an "op" with this command:

/msg chanserv access #gdal list

However the response is:

#gdal is not registered.

We would think that the #gdal channel is registered (?). Then I try to register the #gdal channel with this command:

/msg chanserv REGISTER #gdal FOSS4G4LIFE "GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) discussions" 

The response is:

You must be a channel operator in #gdal in order to register it.

So my short story is: I have no idea :)

comment:5 by strk, 8 years ago

So it looks like it take to get everyone *out* of the channel and then the first coming back in would be op, and able to register.

Or we could ask a freenode admin to grant ownership on trust.

comment:6 by hobu, 8 years ago

AFAIK, no one ever had ops on #gdal. We tried to organize everyone leaving once so we could recreate the channel, but we were unsuccessful. That had to be like 10 years ago though. I think the channel was created in like 2002.

Everyone will have to leave the channel for it to be recreated. IIRC, there wasn't a way for the Freenet ops to override it either.

comment:7 by strk, 8 years ago

Then another way would be registering a new channel (for example #osgeo-gdal) and move there.

Besides, I think Freenode has support for #<organization>-<argument> channels, that is, as long as #osgeo is registered (which is) any #osgeo-<channel> would be contollable by the same ops

See: /msg chanserv access #osgeo list

comment:8 by Even Rouault, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Thanks to jmckenna, a Freenode administrator made myself op of the channel. I've also added hobu and jmckenna as op. jmckenna registered the channel.

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