#ubuntu-ops policy discussion

[Lorenzo J. Lucchini]

On Tuesday 02 February 2010 12:33:10 Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Juha Siltala <juha at siltala.net> wrote:
> > Lurking has been defended on a possibility to learn from following
> > channel discussions. I fail to see what learning challenge could be aided
> > by that, or why live lurking is superior to studying the logs which
> > already are available.
>
> As an op in #ubuntu-women I have found having some of our ops spending
> time in #ubuntu-ops very valuable. We are aware in real time and in a
> workflow that is useful to us about attacks hitting other channels and
> users who have been causing trouble across the namespace (IRC is in
> our workflow, it's unreasonable to take the time to read logs every
> hour they're posted, and frequently that's too late for a fast-moving
> troublesome user anyway). Our channel may be a particularly special
> case since we are frequently a target, but I can certainly see how
> this would be helpful to others, especially those who run loco
> channels and the like who may be next in line to deal with users once
> they can no longer get support in #ubuntu due to poor behavior.

I had intended #ubuntu-irc as the place to report attacks so the other 
channels can know, coordinate, react, etc.

But apparently #ubuntu-irc is rubbish and useless (sure is, if no one uses 
it). So.

by LjL
ljl at ubuntu.com
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