Actually when I talked to freenode staff, there were quite interested in this. They don't have so many servers and wikimedia is well known project with established technical infrastructure. Even if they needed root, they could use puppet to set up the system to their needs and there are many folks around, who would be happy to help them do that.
If there were some technical resources we could offer them, it's definitely worth of asking. Being a donor of servers means, wikimedia project would be listed together with our logo on their donor page as a top donor and that would improve the overall look of our project which is heavily using their network.
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Faidon wrote:
Setting up and properly maintaining an IRC network is extremely complicated. We really *really* shouldn't do that, esp. since there is no reason for us to do so, when there are other open networks around.
freenode servers are hosted, not maintained. Which means, they want the server (and its bandwidth), not that the hoster maintains the irc network.
On 21/06/12 14:24, K. Peachey wrote:
(Last I saw) Freenode wants full root access on the boxes, Something that ops more than likely won't want to do if its sitting on our networks.
Not exactly, they would like it, but it's not a requirement. "Where possible we look for dedicated machines with root access, however, we will consider different set-ups too." http://freenode.net/hosting_ircd.shtml
The requisites are pretty basic, and seem easy to fulfill. The only complexity would come because ops would probably want to isolate that server from the rest of the network.
The rest is just "donating" hardware and bandwidth. Which given by the service provided by freenode to the wikimedia community, seems justified.
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