ReactOS IRC Group Contact Information

[Alex Ionescu]

Hi,

Since not all the developers are on IRC and/or are aware of this, I 
wanted to make the following announcement so that future requests/flames 
can go to the right person (ie: me).

I have registered ReactOS as an official group with Freenode, and we now 
have full, legitimate control over #reactos and all #reactos-**** 
channels (as well as ros-dev but there is (and has always been) a remote 
risk some new project called "ROS" might come and dispute that)) and 
enjoy all the benefits of an actual group registration.

Since I am the group contact, that means that any requests that cannot 
be done by yourselves as operators (ie: major changes, like requesting a 
cloak) should be sent to me, and I'll take care of them ASAP. I'm also 
currently fixing the IRC Access Lists so they work properly (people 
would get operator status but not auto-voice, and other such silly 
things). I have already fixed up #ros-dev so that Level 10ers get +v, 
Level 20ers +o and Level 40ers have almost unlimited access. Similarly 
to before, all the devs have been set to have this access level (40). In 
the old system some people were 45, some were 46, some 47, etc, which 
kind of made everything seem awkard (ie: "why is developer foo 44 but 
developer bar 47? is bar more 'powerful'?). This resulted because 
instead of having a single person assign the access, everyone tried 
their best, but people can only give one access level lower then what 
they already are. So in the future, just send me a pm/email and I'll add 
the proper access for a new dev. But that won't be a problem since I'm 
24/7 on IRC and I doubt I would not notice a new developer :). Tomorrow 
I'll be fixing up #reactos, which suffers from even bigger access level 
problems.

Apart from making you aware of the fact that I'm here to help for any 
IRC-related business, I also wanted to say that I can now assign you 
user cloaks! This means that instead of being 
[e-mail] you can now be 
[e-mail]. I will also be handing out 
@users.reactos or @testers.reactos for people who are not developers but 
have been helping us quite a lot (one notable example is WaxDragon, or 
tinus, etc). We can of course even have @webteam.reactos or 
@translators.reactos...etc. The main advantages of a cloak is that

1) people know you're with us, and what your position is
2) Your actual ISP/Hostname/IP is hidden from the public, so you don't 
need to worry about script kiddies
3) It's cool (imo)

So here's what I'll be needing from you if you want to be cloaked: 
(CONTRIBUTORS ONLY FOR NOW, PLEASE!)

1) Your IRC Nickname and IRC Alternate Nickname (you *must* set one 
up...and your nickname *must* have been registered to a valid e-mail 
address)
2) Your choice of cloak... recommendations: (developer.reactos, 
translator.reactos, media (or designer? or ui?).reactos, board.reactos)

PM me on IRC or send me an e-mail with the above information and you 
should have your cloak in less then a day.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu