IRC woes

Well, OpenProjects is at it again. They’re trying to switch to their
custom ircd based on ircd-hybrid, the ircd used by most of Efnet. They
have declined advice from developers of hybrid, irc clients, and veteran
irc users. Tonight was their fourth basically untested and disasterous
upgrade attempt. We expect they will either abort the upgrade or declare
it a success and decide that anything broken is not their problem.

They’ll be missing a few users though. OPN is used by people because it’s
generally a good network without the war zone feeling one gets using efnet
servers and channels. Still, battling the server software is no different
than battling hostile users. As a result, I’ve created #SDL on AnyNet
(irc.anynet.org), and hopefully in a day or two the channel will actually
be in working order.

The channel is in no way official and I’ve not really consulted with
anybody before doing it. |Rain| (admin of the main hub) is hoping to have
services online soon and if the chanops of the OPN channel want it at that
point, they’re welcome to it. An unstable irc network is no use to
anybody.–
Joseph Carter Free software developer

“So, will the Andover party have a cash bar?”
“No, there’s free beer.”
“Uh-oh, Stallman’s gonna be pissed…”
– overheard at the Bazaar, 1999

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As per my prediction, I’d like to point out that they did both.

However they intend to try the “upgrade” again soon. If the last four
times they have tried it were total disasters, I don’t have much faith in
any fifth attempt.On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:57:19AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:

Well, OpenProjects is at it again. They’re trying to switch to their
custom ircd based on ircd-hybrid, the ircd used by most of Efnet. They
have declined advice from developers of hybrid, irc clients, and veteran
irc users. Tonight was their fourth basically untested and disasterous
upgrade attempt. We expect they will either abort the upgrade or declare
it a success and decide that anything broken is not their problem.


Joseph Carter Free software developer

kb: I demand integrity and honesty in those who i do business with
i know my demands are unreasonable, but a guy can dream, can’t he?

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