October 2008 - DALnet-src

Bahamut Coding Update
by Aaron Wiebe 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Greetings All, This email has been a long time in coming. The coding team has been idle for the last long while, and we're making some efforts to change that now. We're trying to wrap up some patches for Bahamut 1.8.5 and hoping to begin some significant development over the next few months. There are some big changes to how we're approaching things. In the past, we've run the Coding Team as a fairly closed unit - we worked on our development, took suggestions, and generally did most of everything ourselves. These days, we simply don't have the time to run things as they used to run. Changes are required - and so, along with some other things, we're changing our development process. This will result in the dalnet-src(a)dal.net mailing list becoming (I hope) a lot more active. With that said, here are some more specific details: Version Control: Git =============== After many years of subversion and, before that, CVS, we've decided to switch to git for version control. Git is a distributed version control system written by Linus Torvalds specifically for the linux kernel. It applies very well to open source development as a general statement, and it will provide some flexibility to our development methods. For more information about git, check out http://git.or.cz My copy, the master public copy for bahamut, is located at http://code.dal.net/bahamut.git Git changes how development happens. Learn it, it is generally awesome. Development Method: Maintainer ========================== This is a bit of a departure for us. Since the team as a whole doesn't have a lot of time, myself included, we're changing a bit of the approach. I will maintain the master git repository, cut official versions, and push changes onto DALnet as things progress - nobody else will really have access to the main tree. Keep in mind, using git, everyone has a full copy of the tree -- including all of the history. The only reason my tree is the main tree is because I say so, and everyone else lets me continue my delusions of importance. The method of getting a change into my tree will be as follows: 1. Submit a patch series ---> email, to dalnet-src(a)dal.net, a series of git-generated patches of the changes you wish to make. Its probably a good idea to send a precursor email to explain what the patches are and why, so we know. ---> include a git location for me to syncronize with your git tree. I should be able to git-pull your changes into the master tree in step 3... 2. Public review ---> everyone is encouraged to review and comment on the patches or series of patches ---> This may mean that your patches are rejected and/or changes are requested to your patchset 3. git pull ---> I will pull your changes from your git tree, and merge them into the main tree A few notes, to help with getting your patch to me in the best possible method: - Explain what you're doing, and why. Each patch should be either a single change, or part of a patchset of a larger change. - Commit log messages are important. - DONT combine several different logical changes into a single patch. If they're more than one old 'changelog' entry, you're doing it wrong. - Follow the coding format rules. This will be slack to begin with, but I'm going to be spending some time fixing this up over the next little while. Once our code is cleaner, the rules will be more enforced. Development Direction ================= Right now, we're going to concentrate on getting out version 1.8.5. Kobi has been working on a series of small patches to clean up a few outstanding issues in 1.8.4, and we should wrap this up within a month or so. These are small bugs and small enhancements. Afterwards, we have some general goals (like IPv6, client side ssl, etc) but no specific list. I'm open to suggestions, and would love to get more people involved. Anyone is welcome to contribute. I'm looking at you, dalnet ops people, to try and give us some suggestions of features you'd want. And perhaps to code them yourselves! I hope this will help breath some life back into the Bahamut community - I'd love to see this ircd become a major player again. We've always been one of the best in performance - we just have lagged behind in features for a while. Lets get this going again! Thanks, epiphani Coding Team Lead

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Help neede regarding dalnet4.4.13 IRCd for Windows
by Syed Abdur Rahman Bukhari 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

I have problem running my IRCd for Windows, when I try to connect to 127.0.0.1 on port 7000 (/server 127.0.0.1:7000), the daemon says ** Connecting to 127.0.0.1 (7000) - * Identd request from 127.0.0.1 * Identd replied: 1438, 7000 : USERID : UNIX : ScAR - [Server Notice] *** If you are having problems connecting due to ping timeouts, please type /notice FC5446F6 nospoof now. - Password Incorrect - Closing Link: Abcent[localhost] (Bad Password) - * Disconnected* ** *What is wrong? I am sending you ircd.conf, please help as I am much interested in running my LAN server :) *-- Anticipating your reply, S.A.Rahman Bukhari MSN: abcent(a)gmail.com Gmail: s.a.rahman(a)gmail.com Blog: http://abcent.iblog.com/ Album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/abcent/ Cell: 00923212850223 MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/a2850223 Confidentiality Notice:- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, privileged or proprietary information.If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail (with any attachments) and destroy any copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal.

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DALnet-src@ mailing list issues..
by epiphani 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

All, Just a heads up that this list will start becoming active again soon, but we're first trying to deal with a lot of the moderation issues. Since this list is very old, we can't exactly just unmoderate it - it would result in a lot of spam. We are working with the postermaster team to get this sorted out. Thanks, epiphani

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Bahamut NickServ / MemoServ Bot Startup Q
by Zirin, Daniel (Mission Systems) 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

We're trying to run Bahamut/SolidIRCd on a private (non-Internet) network and were wondering how to start a NickServ bot (and MemoServ bot as well). The IRCd is up and functioning well for channel discussions. We'd like to implement nick reg, however. Running Bahamut v1.4.8/SolidIRCd v3.4.8.

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Current verson of Bahamut IRCD
by phil1974＠taylorassociate.com 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

How can I disable the command /sajoin and /samode in Bahamut IRCD please?

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bahamut bahamut-1.8(04)
by Alex 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi, Can you please confirm whether there are any issues with your software under FreeBSD/amd64? I am having issues with hostname lookups of connecting clients constantly failing. There is an instance of bind running on the machine thats running the ircd. nslookup requests are working fine on the machine. I have tried completely disabling the firewall on the machine incase the firewall (pf) was dropping packets.. This didnt help. I dont recall having the problem on FreeBSD/i386, so am curious whether this is something thats a bug specific to 64 bit builds. I am running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE/amd64 on a Q6600 CPU. If you require further information, please let me know.

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