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Stop running CGI:IRC on irc.openstreetmap.org #374

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harry-wood opened this issue Mar 5, 2020 · 6 comments
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Stop running CGI:IRC on irc.openstreetmap.org #374

harry-wood opened this issue Mar 5, 2020 · 6 comments

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@harry-wood
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Seems like we should think about ceasing with running CGI:IRC ( http://cgiirc.org/ perl IRC web client) on irc.openstreetmap.org for a couple of reasons:

When I say "stop running" we could either just redirect irc.openstreetmap.org to https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=#osm

Or (better?) we could embed it as an iframe with some channel presets. This is something they encourage on there. See the "Add webchat to your site" option.

@tomhughes
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Another problem is that Ubuntu no longer have cgiirc in their package set - the version we're running is from a previous release and just remained over upgrades over the years.

That's why the irc cookbook didn't get a test, because the test can't work as it can't install the package...

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Firefishy commented Mar 5, 2020

I am in favour of us redirecting. Alternatively we could publish a static page with links to https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=#osm https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=#osm-dev etc.

@gravitystorm
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Alternatively we could publish a static page with links to

I think this would be the best option, since we have a bunch of different channels which are otherwise hard to discover.

@harry-wood
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on CGI:IRC I like the drop-down o box to choose a channel to join. Unfortunately the iframed webchat.oftc.net doesn't behave like that. It lets us specify multiple channels but that ends up like this: https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=osm%2Cosm-dev%2Chot%2Cosm-gb&uio=MT11bmRlZmluZWQb1 ...which lets the user join all the channels all at once.

Guess we could make our own form to launch https://webchat.oftc.net

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Here is the list of channel: https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/blob/master/cookbooks/cgiirc/templates/default/cgiirc.config.erb#L11

I would list each out individually and with a separate link to https://webchat.oftc.net for each.

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Done.

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