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Summary: rename #tpo-admin to #tor-admin and add to the Matrix/IRC bridge.

Background

It's unclear exactly why, but the IRC channel where TPA people meet and offer realtime support for people is called #tpo-admin, presumably for "torproject.org administrators". All other Tor-related channels are named with a #tor- prefix (e.g. #tor, #tor-dev, #tor-project, etc).

Proposal

Let's follow the naming convention and rename the channel #tor-admin. While we're there, add it to the Matrix bridge so people can find us there as well.

The old channel will forward to the new one with the magic +f#tor-admin (Forward) and +l1 (limit to 1), and have ChanServ occupy the old channel. Documentation in the wiki will be updated to match, and the new channel settings will be modified to match the old one.

Update: OFTC doesn't actually support the +f mode nor for ChanServ to "guard" a channel. The channel will be set

Alternatives considered

Other ideas include:

  • #tor-sysadmins - too long, needlessly different from #tpo-admin
  • #tor-support - too generic, #tor is the support channel
  • #tor-tpa - too obscure?
  • #tor-sre - would love to do SRE, but we're not really there yet

References

At least those pages will need an update:

... but we'll grep for that pattern everywhere just in case.

Work on this proposal is tracked in tpo/tpa/team#40731.