New/Upcoming features on freenode

[Robert Wall]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Robert Wall <robert at rww.name> wrote:
> === Upcoming services changes: SASL DH-BLOWFISH dropped ===
>
> https://blog.freenode.net/2014/11/atheme-7-2-and-freenode/ : Again, not
> directly relevant to us, but you might want to check your SASL
> configuration, and users might ask about it.
>
> === Upcoming services changes: New exttargets ===
>
> Also https://blog.freenode.net/2014/11/atheme-7-2-and-freenode/ : freenode
> testnet is currently testing a couple of new exttargets. Exttargets are
> things that can be added to ChanServ access control lists (the things we use
> to e.g. specify who has op access in channels) to assign flags to a group of
> users. The two new exttargets are:
>
> * $registered to grant flags to all people who are identified to NickServ: I
> don't see a use-case for this in #ubuntu-*, personally, but suggestions
> welcome :)
>
> * $chanacs to grant flags to people who have flags in another channel: this
> could be useful to e.g. automatically give #ubuntu ops access in #ubuntu+1
> (currently, those two channels have the same ACLs because of manual
> syncing).

These changes have now been enabled on the production freenode network.

-- 
Robert Wall <robert at rww.name>