[RFE] ZNC service

[farhaanbukhsh]

We should have our own znc bouncer, this would help us in may ways:

1. We could learn to maintain one.
2. People can request an account since it is our server we could have more control.
3. This will help people not to miss out on interesting discussion.
4. This will help people to be active on IRC.

[kushaldas]

Questions:

• How to decide who all will get access?
• Do you want to have an informal vetting process (like the regular ones we do in dgplug). Where to track that information?

[Schubisu]

If we would log all #dgplug conversation 24/7 this would already solve the problem of people missing stuff. There is always discussion about bouncers that might cause people to be even less active/actually present.

[farhaanbukhsh]

@Schubisu has a point there! So let's come to the root do we really need a bouncer, if yes then why?

[kushaldas]

ZNC is a IRC bouncer, means it will be used for all the channels, not only #dgplug channel.

[trishnaguha]

So here comes the point! Are we aiming to provide IRC bouncer service like panicbnc, elitebnc do?
If not ZNC service doesn't make sense, logging would be the simplest solution.

[jasonbraganza]

to summarise what I understood just now

We need the service to provide stable access to select folk who work and contribute (and choose your criteria here) and they’d need to see if there’s anything they missed when they were away

[CuriousLearner]

If we have enough hands to maintain the service then only it makes sense because:

1. We own data
2. We can join to different IRC channels.

If not, then logging would be simplest solution as @trishnaguha said.