Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

2012/10/15 Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>:
> On 10/15/2012 06:53 AM, Andrea Veri wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I explained the benefits in my original mail but here they are again:
>>
>> - services, that means having the ownership of your nick. No one will
>> be able to spoof your identity. (plus host cloaking with handy (for
>> example) /gnome/marketing/foo that may help newcomers finding the
>> right person to talk when the first join a certain channel.)
>> - privacy, Freenode has SSL enabled so all conversations are crypted
>> and don't happen in plain text.
>> - no need to keep a bot to auto OP you every time you accidentally
>> lose connection.
>
> These would be nice to have. But I wonder if the best way to address it
> is not to up and leave GimpNet, but instead to get those features added
> to GimpNet.
>
>> In the past I've joined the #opers channel multiple times asking why
>> there was no intention to improve the GIMPNET network but I alwais
>> received no answer and as of today I still don't know the real reason
>> behind that decision.
>
> Who exactly "owns" GimpNet and if asking on #opers doesn't get us the
> answers we seek, how else can we get them?

Very nice question Joanmarie, who takes decisions on behalf of the
GIMPNET network? if GIMPNET is aliased the GNOME IRC network why they
don't listen to contributor's ideas and suggestions? why they don't
have a single place where people can raise concerns? also how do you
expect a newcomer to understand that GIMPNET is the GNOME network when
the MOTD is still set to be "bork bork...don't irc as root" in many
GIMPNET's servers? or when the topic of a channel isn't set at all or
disappears because there are no services?

There are several things to improve and as far as I see it now the
GIMPNET networks looks like being unmaintained.

Thanks Joanmarie for pointing this out.

cheers,

Andrea