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bazhangMyrtti, thanks for clearing the mutes.00:07
bazhangodd that I can no longer see the mutes as before (ie below the banlist) and Operserv has replaced the usual verne.freenode.net in banlist00:10
FlannelMutes aren't +b anymore, they're entirely separate (/mode +q)00:22
bazhangFlannel, right, but don't show up in any xchat windows I can see00:25
Flannelbazhang: even when you /mode +q?00:25
Glahey guys, how's it going?02:26
Glaanyone around to talk with about community management?02:26
FlannelGla: What?02:47
FlannelOh.02:47
FlannelHi Gla, How can we help you today?02:47
FlannelHi rahduke, How can we help you today?02:48
rahdukewoops, didnt even mean to join this chan.... Gla would like to speak to someone regarding the IRC chan though02:49
* MenZa pokes Gla 02:54
MenZaHow can we help you? :)02:54
FlannelMenZa: Got him in query02:55
MenZaGotcha -- carry on :)02:55
Glacool, I'll actually move it to here so you guys can take it all in02:56
GlaI've been in the midst of writing a software project with a few people to basically re-create IRC on the web.  We've been writing the software for 1 1/2 years, and we're probably going to open up a private beta soon.02:56
GlaI myself am a huge IRC addict, as I use IRC pretty much 24/7 for the last 12 years of my life, though it has a lot of problems for larger communities, people out of IRC using it, etc02:57
Glaso we're basically creating an easy to use interface, making "channels"/topics searchable, etc, and allowing each channel to have a public presence while adhereing many of the same concepts of IRC to our system and some02:58
GlaI would certainly like to get some feedback from you guys on how Ubuntu uses IRC, some of the pain points that it sees, and any other feedback/things you might have to add, as this has been my entire life for the past 1 1/2 years :)02:59
Glawe're going to open our beta in a month or so02:59
Glaor, testing platform so to speak.02:59
Glaso I would like to know if Ubuntu might like to try this out, and also know what Ubuntu sees as pain points within IRC, as that's a huge thing we're trying to solve.  Accessability, useability, scale-ing to larger user basis, and search are some things we see as pain points.03:01
Gla*cough*03:02
GlaMenZa, Flannel , ?03:06
MenZaInteresting, to say the least, Gla.03:09
MenZaAs for "IRC on the web", what exactly... do you mean by that?03:10
Glabuilding a platform that is dedicated to servicing real-time communities.03:10
MenZaSo, is it an implementation on the IRC RFC, or is it a built-from-scratch protocol and standard?03:11
Glabuilt from scratch03:11
Glawe're not going to be opening it for another month or so, though I was curious if you guys would like to atleast give it a shot and some feedback with your needs03:13
MenZaSee, I'm trying to find out where to direct you regarding this query -- it's definitely beyond the scope of this channel, but let me think for a second.03:13
Glathe jQuery community is going to help us test some stuff so far, and we were looking for another community that might be interested in giving some feedback for our service03:13
MenZaFlannel: suggestions?03:17
FlannelMigrating the Ubuntu community would be way too much of a task03:29
Glawell of course it would.03:29
FlannelIt's not something you can easily say "Ok, we're using foobar now" and have happen without headaches03:30
Glawe don't think a complete migration is merely possible, though we think 2 can exist at once.03:30
Glaas there are many many users who don't use IRC who use Ubuntu, so the people and userbase is different03:31
FlannelI was talking about the IRC portion03:49
Glawell, I would say it's fairly safe to say that one could exist for IRC users, and the other exist for other users, though serving similar functionality.  Kinda the same way forums and irc, both exist.03:50
FlannelGla: What sort of an interface are we talking about?03:50
FlannelObviously I'm not clear on what it is03:51
Glawell the interface has not been launched just yet, though it's safe to say that it's a threaded conversation type model, though all as real-time as chat.  Twitter-esquer in nature.  I will be able to show you the interface within the month.03:52
FlannelHow would that be different than a forum? (or isn't reddit something like that?)03:54
Glathe main goal is that we want end users to be able to 1) find their community as fast as possible, 2) interact with that community... and we want communities to be able to link to their real-time community.03:54
Glawell it's all very real-time, like chat.  the whole thing is real-time, no refreshing, you see responses in real-time, as they're threaded, moderation is real-time, etc03:55
FlannelSo it's an incremental upgrade to a forum type thing03:55
Glayea03:55
FlannelAnd this will be all through a website interface?03:56
Glacorrect.03:56
FlannelYou might try running this by the forum people then, they might be interested03:57
Glaah, you guys are a different team?03:57
FlannelWe deal with IRC, the forum people deal with the forum, yeah.03:58
Glacool.03:58
Glawell to be honest, it's more like IRC then it is a forum.03:58
Glaas our focus is on real-time, moderated conversations.03:58
Glathough our conversations do persist, we focus on the real-time aspect.03:58
FlannelForums are pretty realtime, save the page-refreshing aspect03:59
Glawell, these are very real-time, you can see when users are typing, the threaded models are more like small chats rather then big posts, I suppose you'll have to see it.03:59
* MenZa thinks he would get a headache from seeing the activity on Ubuntu Forums in real-time.04:02
Glawell you'll have to see our interface, it's very very simple and has a lot of thought put into it at the same time.  Rest assured you'll be at ease.04:03
Glathough I suppose we can further our conversation once we have that open, it's simply good to see what your thoughts on this subject on at this time.04:03
GlaUbuntu might be a big one to take off, as you guys have about 250 channel related to Ubuntu, where other communities have 2-3 :)04:06
Glathough it's good to see your aspect on this idea, etc04:06
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ubottuardchoille called the ops in #ubuntu (ZiG|ZaG)04:39
jussi01Gla: so its something like google wave then?06:20
* mneptok thinks "real time moderated web-based chat" sounds a lot like existing and functional web IRC clients06:29
bazhangI've seen this before. Like IRC, once removed. moderation is virtually not possible. Using Ajax iirc.06:33
bazhangIt's basically a liveblog.06:35
Glabazhang: that's not true at all06:43
Glait's a bit better then Google Wave and has a community focus06:43
GlaGoogle Wave is actually licenesing some of the technology we built for this06:44
bazhangGla, links?06:44
Glait's not up yet.06:44
bazhangcitation to the licensing?06:44
Glawe will have an interface in a month or so ready to go.06:44
Glabazhang: I don't believe that's anywhere yet as that was pretty recent but let me see if I can find anything06:45
Glaany of you guys in the bay area? palo alto or stanford?06:45
Glawell, it's good to here you guys are atleast open to the concept.06:47
Glahopefully you like what we have to show you guys.06:47
Gla:)06:48
tsimpsonhopefully you'll open up the protocol(s) you create (nudge-nudge)06:49
Glawe will!06:49
Glawe're working on having our protocols work for ourselves first :)06:49
tsimpsonof course, no point in having an open protocol if it doesn't work :)06:49
Glait's been about 1 1/2 years in development, figuring out a lot of technical, navigational , and user interface difficulties06:50
tsimpsonso, what exactly is the problem you are trying to solve here? ie: what's wrong with the current technologies, and what solutions did you come up with?06:51
tsimpsonslightly random question, I know...06:51
Glawell there's a lot of problems with the real-time web, scaling it, etc06:52
Glaserver and client-side06:52
GlaMeebo is pretty much on the fore-front of that, as well as Google, but there's few people outside of that who have nailed it06:52
Glathe problem we're solving is the problem that the expierence on IRC is amazing, though not available to everyone.  So we're creating a way for IRC to be more accessable, useable/user friendly06:53
tsimpsonwhat do you mean IRC is not available to everyone?06:54
mneptokhttp://www.mibbit.com/chat/06:54
tsimpsonhttp://webchat.freenode.net/06:54
GlaI mean, not many people really get the whole concept06:54
Glamost programmers don't use IRC.06:54
Glathey should.06:54
tsimpsonok06:55
Glait's an amazing thing that they're missing out on, and many many people I've showed IRC to are blown away by what it has to offer.06:55
Glafrom math people, to programmers, to entreprenuers, etc06:56
mneptokGla: PDX?06:56
Glait's an amazing place06:56
Glasorry, I think I missed your last message, PDX?06:56
mneptokare you in PDX?06:56
GlaI don't know what PDX is06:56
mneptokPortland, Oregon06:56
Glaah, I'm in Palo Alto, CA06:57
Gladriving distance :)06:57
mneptokweird. sbc does hostmasks oddly.06:57
Gla10 hour drive it says...06:57
Glaare you in PDX?06:57
* mneptok will be in SClara in April for the MySQL conf06:57
mneptokAlbuquerque, NM06:58
Glaoh no kidding?06:58
GlaI was offered to speak at the MySQL conferences06:58
mneptokno kidding. on either score.06:58
Glajust talked with Marten the other day actually06:58
mneptokheh06:58
mneptoki live on the other side of that valley.06:58
* mneptok works for Monty06:58
Glano kidding?06:58
mneptokno kidding.06:58
Glawhat's Monty up to now? he forked his own version right? Marissa or something.06:59
mneptokand FYI, Marten is in no position to invite anyone to speak :)06:59
mneptokMariaDB06:59
tsimpsonyou said it's going to be a bit better than Wave, and community focused, can you expand on that?06:59
Glahaha, that is true, though I simply thought I would say that for social-connections sake :)06:59
Glatsimpson: you know, it might be best to simply come back when we have a demo and can invite you guys to use it07:00
Glawhich should be in about 1 month07:00
tsimpsonok :) I'm just trying to imagine it07:01
Glabut basically Google Wave is very contacts based, where we're very community based.  We want to make the communities on our site reflective of who are actually in that community.  Think Facebook -> People, Our servicie -> Communities07:01
GlaFacebook makes sure the individual is credible, integral, searchable, etc07:01
Glaso with that said, in a months time I really hope you can try out what we have :)07:02
tsimpsonsure, I'm always interested in new technologies07:03
Glait's neat to see you guys are open to such things.  I was actually reading https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392799 ( which I found only about an hour ago ) , and was very surprised07:03
ubottuUbuntu bug 392799 in ubuntu-community "#ubuntu too noisy to be useful" [Medium,In progress]07:03
GlaIt's interesting to see how the internet moves.07:04
Myrttibear in mind #ubuntu isn't aimed for devs tho07:04
Glawell our aim isn't really devs, it's mostly communities, no matter what they represent.07:06
Glabut really, this is great to get feedback from you guys.07:09
Glareally appreciate these conversations happening.07:09
* mneptok represents straight-up old-skool style07:09
mneptokword.07:10
Semitoneshello -- could you take a look at e1b6 in #ubuntu07:25
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Semitonesit might be nothing, but he's ignoring !ask, and pmming people07:26
GlaGuest10773: here?07:32
GlaMyrtti07:32
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Glahey Myrtti07:33
Myrttii've got a stomach bug from hell, so I'm only marginally present07:34
MenZa:(07:35
* MenZa hugs Myrtti gently.07:35
Glapretty cool group of people we got in here07:36
Myrttii've never had anything like this. apart from hangovers when younger07:36
Glayou guys are a pretty tightly knit group of ops eh?07:36
Myrttiatleast no headache tho, but i've been awake last night07:37
MenZaGla: We do what we must -- because we can. ;)07:46
Semitones:)07:48
elkyGla, not really. there's vastly differing opinions in here. very vastly differing07:49
MyrttiGla: anyway, feel free to come back when you've got the working thing to show us :-)08:03
bazhangSemitones, anything else you need help with?08:04
Semitonesbazhang, the user I mentioned has left, so I don't think there's a problem anymore08:05
bazhangSemitones, thanks for the heads up08:05
Semitonessure thing -- he might have been asking for help, just not very well08:05
Semitoneshard to say08:06
Semitonesanyway, good night ops08:06
MyrttiSemitones: good night, bybye08:08
dholbachgood morning08:10
Tm_TK'day08:11
dholbachhi tm_T08:13
Glawell I'll hang around09:22
GlaI like this channel09:22
Gla56 is a good enough # I suppose09:22
ikoniaGla: please check the topic of the channel09:23
ikoniaGla: you may also get more millages if you mail the irc-coumunity-council with your request and propsal09:24
Tm_Tikonia: you meant irc-council ?09:24
ikoniaTm_T: yes09:24
ikoniaGla: do you know how to contact the irc-council (I can't see it mentioned in the logs)09:27
Glaikonia: I thought you guys were the irc-council :)09:29
Glaif not, what are you guys? :P09:30
Tm_TGla: topic actually answers to that pretty well (:09:30
Glaah lol :)09:30
ikoniaGla: do you need anything else ?09:59
ikoniaGla: hello ?10:29
Mamarokmaybe removing them is a good idea, this is not a zoo10:54
Tm_Tthem? (:11:00
MamarokGla: please do not idle here, see the channel topic11:26
bazhangmanually removing a quiet is /mode #channel -q *!*@ip address ?11:39
tsimpsonbazhang: yes, same as a ban11:47
bazhangtsimpson, thanks much11:48
bazhang* bazhang sets mode -q #ubuntu *!*@32.40.220.87.dynamic.jazztel.es  that looks correct tsimpson ?11:51
tsimpsonyep, that looks fine to me11:51
bazhangokay thanks again11:51
MyrttiJuian8: hi11:52
Juian8hi Myrtti, i can't talk at the moment but if i can help you please leave a message and i'll see it on scrollback.11:54
Myrttilolwhat?11:54
bazhanghe's been told over a dozen times to join #ubuntu-es , including a PM from myself11:57
q0kNo, this is serious... I go to https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/installation-guide/i386/index.html ; it says *Ubuntu Documentation > Ubuntu 9.10 > Ubuntu Installation Guide* at the top but *Next  Installing Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” For i386* at the bottom. This is official document. Please correct this.12:11
bazhangTo report a problem, file a bug on the Ubuntu installation-guide package q0k12:12
q0kokay12:13
bazhanghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/installation-guide/+filebug q0k12:13
q0kthanks12:13
bazhangq0k, the bottom of that document12:14
bazhangq0k, was there any other issue at present that needed resolution ?12:14
q0kNo.12:17
bazhangq0k, then please dont idle here, thanks12:18
q0k"idle" verb is funny. Made me laugh. I am leaving. Thanks!12:18
bazhangnp12:18
bazhanghyperstream wants clarification on why lmgfy is not a superb idea12:30
bazhanghe wants the wiki to be very explicit why telling someone to just google it, or using lmgtfy is not a great solution.12:43
ikoniait's not exactly a nice way to interact with people12:47
PiciBecause #ubuntu is a support channel.12:47
bazhangright, of course.12:48
bazhanghe was vehement that his personal philosophy overrode the channel policy12:48
bazhangteach a man to fish etc12:48
ikoniathen he can't stay in the channel12:48
ikoniahe can actually google it for someone12:48
ikoniaand give them the link and talk to them about it12:48
PiciAye.12:49
ikoniaI don't see a problem with that,12:49
ikoniathat's actually helping someone12:49
bazhanghe was PM'ed and had it explained to him. he was invited here to discuss and declined12:49
ikoniathen he needs to stop doing it in the channel12:49
bazhanglmgtfy is rude and insulting12:49
ikoniait's a little sarcastic, there are just nicer ways to do it12:49
PiciI suggest google keywords as a last resort, or if thats how I got my answer and I want to teach them to fish.12:52
Myrttithere's no guarantees thst lmgtfy gives secure reliable results12:52
Myrttiso it canät be used12:52
elkyforget if it works or not. it's rude.12:53
bazhangI wish idoru or one of the floodbots had an autokick mechanism built in when someone did that12:53
PiciIts on my hilight list12:54
bazhangheh12:54
bazhangsorry for the rant. his lengthy PM defending its use got me going.12:54
elkyubottu's already parsing the logs, im not sure it'd be a whole lot more for it to PM "HOW RUUUUDE!" to everyone who used it.12:55
ubottuError: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :)12:55
* elky pets the bot.12:55
bazhangMyrtti, thanks for the pastebin, btw; did my first manual remove of a quiet :)12:55
elkywe know you're just a stupid bit of python, dear. Don't worry.12:55
bazhanghehe12:56
* Pici blinks13:21
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PiciTheres a lot of ban exceptions that can be cleared out, going to be a little noisy for a bit.14:56
ikoniaI did a few yesterday14:58
PiciI have a list of 150 that have no match to anyone currently online.14:59
ikoniaoooh, quite a few15:02
PiciI compared /mode +e to the output of /who #ubuntu15:03
ikoniagood call15:05
elkyWhy are those building up like that?15:08
PiciI think that when a bot dies, it forgets about the ones that it had added.15:09
elkyThe bots should be able to do what you just did.. like hourly15:09
Piciand... done.15:19
ikonianice job15:20
ubottuFloodBot1 called the ops in #ubuntu-ops-monitor (repeated abuse from ikonia)15:25
ikonia????15:26
ikoniathe flood bots claiming it warned me 4 times and one of them was for language ?/???15:26
Piciikonia: Probably a troll who used !language against you after you telling them !language15:27
ikoniaah15:27
ikoniathat's a big window then as it must have been hours since I got a hilght in there, if not days15:27
ikonianot to worry15:27
guntbertis the new process for becoming op already active? if yes - where can I see applications?19:03
jussi01guntbert: see -irc19:06
guntbertyes - sorry for cross-posting19:06
DJonesCan somebody kick the spammer in #ubuntu - nick30a spamming a w3chat address19:20
DJonesignore that, they've just been klined19:20
ubottuIn ubottu, ubollox said: !gordon_brown is gay20:05
ubottuIn ubottu, ubollox said: !your_mum is a_whore20:06
Pici!b > ubollox20:06
Myrttiso, #ubuntu-app-devel, you say?20:25
Tm_Tno comments from me yet20:25
Tm_Tother than, nuts!20:26
* Tm_T hides20:26
MenZatopyli: Might I be so lucky you could do me a small favour?20:47
MenZatopyli: That is, if you have bzr installed :)20:47
topylii do20:48
MenZatopyli: Check out the Planet branch, update my feed URL?20:48
MenZaI don't have an ssh-key enabled system running at the moment. :\20:48
MenZas/\/feed\/index.php\/feed\//20:49
MenZa(well.. on my entry :p)20:49
topylisure20:50
* topyli re-figures out how it's done20:50
MenZahttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlanetUbuntu#Adding%20Your%20Feed20:51
MenZaCheers, topyli20:51
topylioh i only got to the membershp wiki page so far :)20:51
ubottublakkheim called the ops in #ubuntu (ERDJ)20:51
topylioh! i should have tried lernid now! :)20:53
topyliMenZa, i can't parse sed that complex. what's wrong with the url? :)20:55
MenZatopyli: well, change http://blog.lassehavelund.com/feed/ to http://blog.lassehavelund.com/index.php/feed/20:56
MenZalighttpd doesn't like rewrites, and I'm buckling under it :P20:56
topyliah ok20:56
ikonialighthttpd doesn't do much but serve pages20:57
topyliMenZa, you also have a category defined there. we'll drop that?20:57
ubottuFloodBot1 called the ops in #ubuntu-ops-monitor (repeated abuse from ujkanovic)20:57
MenZatopyli: Oh, leave that actually20:57
MenZaHmm20:58
MenZaOne second20:58
MenZaLet me be absolutely sure20:58
MenZahttp://blog.lassehavelund.com/index.php/category/ubuntu/feed/ <- topyli20:58
topyliright20:58
topyliok, committed. enjoy the show while planets explode!21:01
MenZa\o/ topyli21:44
Tm_Tnnnnnnnngh, once again broken motherboard decides I don't need ram21:55

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