On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
Hi,
It never occured to me that IRC is this important for us. Time to get Drupal cloaks. Let's discuss for real what cloaks we want, who can get one and so on and I will deal with the rest.
When someone joins a channel or whois run on her/him/it then you see:
Druplico@rm-1006-10.serve.com
versus
chx@pdpc/supporter/professional/chx
I wear a pdpc cloak at this moment while Druplicon is uncloaked. Only identified users get a cloak, they get it automatically upon idenitifcation. A cloak usually serves to show that you belong to the project.
Example: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewMemberHowto and http://www.mail-archive.com/community@apache.org/msg04083.html
Regards,
NK
[22:56] <chx> Bdragon: feel free to reply to my mail on devel with the information of a) what's required to have a cloak at all b) when are eligible for a Drupal cloak (first rule, common sense, then cvs acc, then two vouchers) Freenode allows registered groups to provide affiliated cloaks to participants. http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#projectcloak Cloaks have three parts: A group name, a hierarchy, and a unique identifier. I propose the following format for Drupal cloaks: drupal/user/53081 With a special case for Druplicon (as per freenode's guidelines for bot cloaks): drupal/bot/Druplicon Having the cloaks in this format would make it easy to find a person's profile on drupal.org, and the lack of a hierarchy would prevent debates on "contribution levels" and such ;) Anyone who wants a cloak must first have their nick registered and an alternate nick linked to it. A checklist for setting this up is at: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup Freenode lets groups submit cloak requests in batches. It would be a good idea to get together a list for the initial batch of cloaks. Cloak requests must have the "master" IRC nickname (the first nick registered by a user) and the proposed cloak, so we'd need at least this much information to compile a list: Master nick UID For example, I am Bdragon 53081 Finally, eligibility criteria: Users requesting a Drupal cloak must meet at least one of the following criteria: A) "Common sense" (I.E. any well known member of the community for which cloak eligibility would be blantantly obvious) * OR * B) Have a cvs account * OR * C) Has at least two eligible people vouch for them chx is the Freenode group contact for Drupal, so he will pass on the cloak requests to Freenode staff, but we need to have people set up linked nicks and compile a list of cloaks to request beforehand to make this worthwhile. Thanks for your time, --Brandon Bergren --
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