Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

[Andrea Veri <av gnome org>]

2012/10/15 Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>:
>
>>> 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.
>
> You're welcome. But you answered my non-rhetorical question with
> questions -- and rhetorical ones at that. ;)
>
> So allow me to try again: Would it be possible for you or another member
> of the sysadmin team to:
>
> * determine who "owns" this network
> * verify if it is really unmaintained
> * if it really is unmaintained, offer to become a maintainer
> * improve it with the specified features

The only page available online that I found is [1], so I'll take care
to find this kind of information and report back.

cheers,

Andrea

[1] http://www.gimp.org/irc.html