Hello, Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2021, 01:45:03 CEST schrieb Simon Lees:
On 6/2/21 8:14 AM, Christian Boltz wrote: [...]
You assume that the content of the "Freenode IRC nick" field is (still) correct for everybody.
No, I assume its correct for most people and that others would update it if they care enough (presuming we make that possible).
... and for those who don't care enough, your method would mean to assign cloaks to random people who maybe never heard about openSUSE. BTW: making edits possible is irrelevant in this discussion - as long as the IRC nick can't be edited directly on connect.o.o, updates can be requested via a mail to admin@o.o. Ideally the connect.o.o page should have a note containing the new nick somewhere[tm] to make validation of the request possible.
Try to mail all members, and you'll find out how up-to-date the mail addresses are. Most people tend to care about keeping their @o.o mail address working, and nevertheless, there will be several undeliverable mail addresses.
I guess it would also be wise to email project as well.
Agreed, but that's not my point, and won't make the data in connect.o.o more correct.
The IRC nickname typically gets entered when requesting membership, and (nearly) never updated. Therefore I'm quite sure it it's more often outdated (= wrong) than the mail address.
At the same time people who go to the effort of registering there IRC nicks tend to almost never change them and if they do they still keep the old one around.
This is even more true for mail addresses, and changing a mail address is much more work. For example, you have to change your mailinglist subscriptions, accounts on several websites, online shops etc. I'm quite sure nobody changes their mail address voluntary because it's so funny to update it everywhere. In comparison, registering a new nick on IRC is very easy.
(+ people might have a different nick on Libera, or didn't register there, or ...)
Obviously this wont handle the cases where people don't update there nick in connect or haven't registered there nick on the new network. But obviously these people will have had some warning and by not acting they are showing its not that important to them. We can come up with a process for them and now members in the future. But with minimal approach from all sides this would get most people sorted.
I know my method causes a bit more work, but yours sounds like https://bit.ly/3ccqLgJ [yes, same link as above].
I'll kinda agree with that picture other then 90 - 95% simply choose to walk across the bridge to the side and in reality the cliff edge
I slightly ;-) doubt that the picture contains a bridge.
is only about 1m high, which was enough for me to once break a finger but wont cause any more serious injuries.
So you like to jump off a cliff and to break a finger? Well, I don't ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- Yes, I know how much devs hate writing documentation... I was a dev. [Carlos E. R. in opensuse-factory]