freenode vs. oftc

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/13/2012 02:37 AM, Mike Burns wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:05 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
>> On 03/12/2012 12:39 PM, Perry Myers wrote:
>>
>>> We'll keep the #ovirt channel on Freenode open however, if for no
>>> other reason than to redirect folks to the OFTC channel
>>
>> How about this:
>>
>> * Keep OFTC as canonical channel.
>> * Ask everyone to also lurk on the Freenode channel.
>> ** By lurking we shorten the time on discussions in this
>> other-major-IRC community.
>> * Allow conversations to flourish on Freenode, but redirect back to
>> OFTC channel.
>> * See what happens over time.
>>
>> We can have ovirtbot on the Freenode channel, so that channel sees the
>> activity and so forth. This also allows people to turn a discussion in
>> to a meeting simply so they can get a log (and #info, #action, etc.)
>> for sharing with the mailing list later.
>
> I think I'd much rather have a handful of people lurk in the freenode
> channel and point discussion questions to OFTC.  I think that freenode
> has a much larger usage base, so keeping a channel there where we can
> point people to the right place is smart, but I don't know about having
> both channels active for discussions.
>
> IMHO, we should keep all discussions/meetings on the OFTC channel and
> simply redirect people from the freenode channel to OFTC.  We could even
> have a join message on the channel that says something like "Thank you
> for your interest in the oVirt Project.  Our primary IRC channel is
> #ovirt on OFTC.  Please ask your questions there."

+1