Channel Learnings of Freenode for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Ubuntu

[Alan Bell]

Hi all,

We are undertaking a bit of a cleanup of channel access permissions to 
bring them fully into line with the launchpad groups we have that should 
mirror the channel access lists. Once they line up properly (some 
channels will already) then we can document the exceptions such as bots 
with special levels of access and use scripts to help keep them in sync 
from now on.

We will be using the templates system (/msg chanserv help template) and 
setting up the following templates for (almost) all core channels:

op +votiA
council +votsriRfAF

This means some people in some channels might have their access tweaked 
slightly from +votriA or similar to +votiA. +r is a pretty obscure flag 
that allows an operator to lift a ban on themselves (which really 
shouldn't happen should it . . .) you can find out what all the flags 
mean with /msg chanserv help flags. Basically +votiA should be fine for 
all operator activities, the IRC Council account has additional flags so 
that we can manage the access lists.

Exceptions:
#ubuntu-ops has all the core ops team with +vViA (auto voiced) and a 
smaller set of people with +vVotiA (voiced and op access)

Bots across several channels have exceptional access that won't be 
changed such as floodbots with +o

People who are in the launchpad operator lists and who have founder 
access to channels (+F) will keep founder access (might standardise the 
flags a bit here and there to line up with the council template if they 
are inconsistent across channels but fundamentally no change to founders)

The Freenode staff cloak will have op access to all our channels

During this process we will be removing some people from the access 
lists who are not in the launchpad lists, this is mostly people who have 
expired from the launchpad teams and didn't renew. If you end up in this 
category and you lapsed unintentionally then don't worry, just poke one 
of the IRCC team on IRC and we will sort it out.

I will follow up with some per-channel detailed changes, and no doubt I 
will make a mistake or two along the way. Everything is reverseable and 
the objective of the exercise is just to standardise things to the point 
that we can use scripts to help us.

Alan.

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