Hello, Am Freitag, 28. Mai 2021, 21:48:20 CEST schrieb Neal Gompa:
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 2:15 PM Christian Boltz wrote:
TL;DR: Here's your can of worms. [...] The first step is knowing the nicknames, and since Libera is a new network, people can register with any nickname they want. This means the Freenode IRC nicks we know (see connect.opensuse.org) aren't worth much when it comes to Libera.
Now to the worms ;-) [...] Worm 5 is to get the actual cloak setup done at Libera. In comparison to everything above, that's probably the easiest part.
The cloak is already reserved as part of our project registration with Libera. That's active *now*.
That's about the ability to get cloaks. Fine, and good to know that this part is ready. However, my worm 5 was more to get the cloak applied to our members, which needs to be done for each nick separately. (On Freenode, this meant an openSUSE admin asked one of the freenode admins to do it. I guess Libera handles it in a similar way.)
I'm inclined to say we should just do 'sed -e "s/Freenode/Libera.Chat/g" -i -' and call it good for connect-o-o.
OK, more Gagh for you ;-) You assume that for all our members, Freenode nick == Libera nick. I would be *very* surprised if this is true for all our 530 Members. People might choose a different nick on Libera. Or they might choose not to register at Libera, and (if we just do a mass-cloaking based on the data in connect.o.o) someone else would get their cloak without even knowing what openSUSE is. Believe me - I thought twice before I wrote that mail ;-) I also would prefer a simple[tm] solution, but I'm afraid this isn't that simple. Regards, Christian Boltz --
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