[SciPy-Dev] SciPy IRC channel lacks moderation

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 8:49 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Mike Graham <mikegraham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm fine with either option, discontinuing or moderation. Either way we
>>> should make it clear that scipy devs don't hang out there.
>>>
>>
>> For what it's worth, people still get help with numpy, scipy, and other
>> scientific programming issues in the channel every day. Nathan remarked
>> that closing the channel was "a really dumb idea". ;)
>>
>> If you want to appoint Nathan (ngoldbaum on Freenode) and/or me (papna on
>> freenode) as group contact to have moderator tools, the freenode people
>> will probably do that if we can point them to this mailing list thread.
>> They will just want to see that it is what the project wants.
>>
>
> Okay, that seems fine - if Nathan and you want to do that, and it's
> helpful for a part of the community, then that seems like a good idea.
> Thanks for stepping up. Could you please request access to those moderator
> tools for Nathan and yourself, and point them to this thread?
>
> I'll still expand the description of the IRC channel on
> https://scipy.org/scipylib/mailing-lists.html a bit to make clearer what
> it's for (getting help, not for SciPy development discussions).
>

Description: https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/246

Ralf
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/attachments/20180228/7a2bd16f/attachment.html>