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@ -330,23 +330,37 @@ Renaming an IRC Channel
First, follow the procedure for creating a new channel, including submitting First, follow the procedure for creating a new channel, including submitting
the appropriate changes to Gerrit for logging, accessbot, etc and adding the the appropriate changes to Gerrit for logging, accessbot, etc and adding the
proper credentials for the openstackinfra account. proper credentials for the opendevaccess account.
The following commands start the process of renaming of the channel, they Once those changes merge, or using some combination of Depends-On and/or WIP
need to be run by a founder of the channels or a member of infra-root:: status to ensure they don't merge before the others, propose changes to remove
the entries for the old channel from the same files. For the accessbot
:config:`channels.yaml` in particular, don't remove the channel but merely
comment it out with the current date so we'll know when it's safe for to
completely unregister::
/MSG ChanServ op #openstack-project-old channels:
/MSG ChanServ op #openstack-project-new - name: bar
/TOPIC #openstack-project-old We have moved to #openstack-project-new, please - name: baz
/part and then type /join #openstack-project-new to get to us # - name: foo RETIRED 2021-06-02
/MSG ChanServ SET #openstack-project-old GUARD ON - name: plugh
/MSG ChanServ SET #openstack-project-old MLOCK +tnsmif #openstack-project-new - name: xyzzy
/MSG ChanServ SET #openstack-project-old TOPICLOCK ON
/MSG ChanServ SET #openstack-project-old PRIVATE ON
Once that is complete, all new attempts to join the old channel will be Once that is complete, a channel operator should set the topic string for the
automatically redirected to the new channel. No one can rejoin the old old channel to indicate that discussions have moved to the new channel::
channel.
/msg chanserv set #foo topic Discussion has moved to #bar, find us there
Optionally an entry message can be added for anyone joining as a reminder::
/msg chanserv set #foo entrymessage This channel is unused, we're in #bar
Periodically, someone should sweep the accessbot channels for any comments
indicating a channel has been retired for at least 6 months, propose a change
to clean up those comments, and manually unregister each corresponding
channel::
/msg chanserv drop #foo
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