Hi Anthere.
I registered the fr and de channels when I heard about the Freenode naming scheme change, because I envisaged problems with people registering these channels, and being uncontactable. As it was, I had to get a Freenode staffer to give me access in the old French and German channels to make the change. The only two channels that I registered, though, are the French and German ones. I think I'll go through now and register those which remain unregistered, just to be on the safe side.
I've kept the old French and German channels with the same registration and password (ask Fennec for it if you want it) as the new ones, so that if people change their mind and want to go back to the old name, that's fine.
Do you think there is support for changing all the channels over asap? Or should we let them work out when they want to do it?
As for the information page, I think I'll add to the existing page which details the forthcoming naming scheme change (which will be the new title, but with a slash instead of a dash/hyphen).
~Mark Ryan
On 10/10/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
oh, by the way Mark...if you are the owner of several channels and take care of migration and information for all, would you possibly write a short note on the implications on meta (something like, "no worry, no changes of nicknames", "this is a change of freenode policy not of wikimedia foundation" etc...), so that each time there is a migration, you can point out the new channel to that note ?
I suggest this only because I see the perplexity of french irc users this morning ;-) Might save time not to explain it each time ...
Cheers
Ant