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15 | <B>Mark Hetherington</B> | |
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17 | TITLE="[IRCServices Coding] Services 5">mark at mhetherington.demon.co.uk | |
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19 | <I>Thu Dec 13 14:42:45 PST 2001</I> | |
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34 | <PRE>Firstly, thanks to Andrew for releasing the alpha version. Hopefully he will | |
35 | not feel that he has to later remove this opportunity. | |
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37 | A few early questions that maybe Andrew or the Alpha team might be able to | |
38 | comment on. | |
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40 | 1) Do we have any idea on time scale for development beyond alpha? I | |
41 | understand that it is a difficult question to answer given RL committments | |
42 | but based on work so far and this extended open test hopefully highlighting | |
43 | major issues quite quickly, might make it easier to provide an estimate. | |
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45 | 2) Despite the warning not to run the alpha on a production network, it does | |
46 | seem to be the best place to run it since it will give a much more realistic | |
47 | test of the code. It is also very tempting to upgrade :) To this end, are | |
48 | there specific known issues at this time with the current build that would | |
49 | make it completely impractical to run on a small production network? The | |
50 | "knownbugs" file does not seem to have anything specific to Services 5 and | |
51 | nothing serious mentioned either way but those who have already had chance | |
52 | to play with Services 5 may have a good idea of things that would make it | |
53 | unsuitable for risking in a production environment. | |
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55 | 3) At present we seem to be restricted to the mailing list for bug reporting | |
56 | and discussion which makes the process qyute closed. Has there been any | |
57 | thought given to providing some kind of online tracking system which would | |
58 | both show what bugs are currently known and their status? Maybe something on | |
59 | sourceforge or similar system would suffice. | |
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61 | 4) I was wondering about the reasons for AJOIN being included in Services 5. | |
62 | It seems to place an overhead on NickServ that has been handled by many IRC | |
63 | clients for a number of years. Even clients which do not specifically | |
64 | support it, but that implement perform can easily provide AJOIN | |
65 | functionality. Any client supporting scripting could easily manage an AJOIN | |
66 | list. A number of clients support dynamic AJOIN lists by offering to | |
67 | remember hannels that a user uses on a regular basis. | |
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69 | Since part of the ethos behind IRC Services development is not to perform | |
70 | tasks that really belong in IRCd or in clients or could be scripted, it | |
71 | seems odd that firstly this system has been implemented and secondly it is | |
72 | enabled in a default configuration. | |
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74 | Is there something specific that I am missing about this services managed | |
75 | auto join list which makes it preferable to the existing client code which | |
76 | already performs this task? | |
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79 | Anyway, back to play around with the source some more. | |
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81 | Mark. | |
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