Il 10/set/2016 03:33 PM, "Máirín Duffy" <fedora(a)linuxgrrl.com&gt; ha scritto: channels? Because that really doesn't jibe with how we work, yet gnokii has gotten banned from (amongst others) #fedora-meeting-* because of a #fedora policy that I don't think should apply to other Fedora channels. The ban isn't because of any misbehavior - it's because he doesn't have access to an IRC proxy so he has frequent joins/parts because the internet in his country is really unreliable. we should be more understanding of those folks who stay up until 3 AM their time and deal with awful internet service to contribute to Fedora, and not ban them from being able to get their jobs done! To ban someone based on the fact they come from a third world country is problematic on multiple levels, I hope you'd agree. design team, and I needed him in a meeting that was held in a #fedora-meeting channel recently and after struggling to get him in there I came to find he had been banned by a #fedora OP. To me, this is completely unacceptable. of the corresponding FAS groups in charge of those teams. Folks who are not active members of those teams should *not* have OP status in those channels. I kind of thought this was how things operated, but apparently not based on how gnokii has been banned. Certainly, if such a ban were instituted in #fedora-design we'd have no designers - #fedora-design is the very first IRC experience most of the designers we recruit have ever had - they don't know anything about nickserv, ops, join/part messages, proxys/bouncers, etc. And they shouldn't have to! should be OPed by commops. There is no reason #fedora ops should have de facto ops in those channels unless they are engaged in the comm ops team, and sorry to say, I haven't seen any involved in comm ops (please correct me if I'm wrong.) and not let it spread to other parts of the project. filed against them in the ticket system - there's probably been many other CoC violations the victims didn't bother to file - and they really should retire and recover from their burnout before trying again. like a lot of people wield IRC ops not due to any actual personal responsibility but rather because they were around when the Fedora project was in its early days and have held on to it since then - not really a good reason to keep them. It should be more like a relay race baton, not a certificate you hang on your wall forever. make them rotating positions as any other parts of the project (fesco, council, famsco, etc.) are. This would also hopefully help combat burnout by giving overwhelmed ops a e asy way to gracefully bow out without drama or feeling like a quitter or leaving the other opers high and dry without a replacement - just don't run for re-election and let someone else step up. use it as the main support channel we point people to on our websites. The system has built in moderation that allows to keep things more civil than IRC affords. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@lists.fedorap... Totally agree with you Máirín. @kevin: as I said already to Ben, people who get annoyed by bouncing in and out can silent these messages (as I do) and meeting logs don't care about system messages either. So I didn't understand this unfriendly behaviour. Máirín's proposal also seems good to me, we should at least try this way instead of silent the user (in this specific case be) and pass over it again. I never saw the necessity to OP fedora contributor channels, sometimes discussions go personal, but most contributors know each other, so there is always a line nobody has passed so far. I don't have a specific idea for the #fedora channel, but people who join there often use IRC the first time. Instead of banning people for bouncing in and out, OPs should care about unpolite users or offensive trolls. We need to ban them, not contributors who have problems with their Internet connection. Robert