[hybrid] +R patch

[Henri Salo]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 09:38:11PM +0200, Martin Pola wrote:
> I have taken a patch for an old version of ircd-hybrid and ported it to ircd-
> hybrid 7.3.1. Basically what it does is that it adds the channel mode +R. That 
> mode takes one parameter, a user host in the form of nick!user at host.
> 
> If a channel becomes opless, the server will try to see if there is anyone 
> from the +R list in the channel. If so, it will op the person with least idle 
> time.
> 
> Here's the patch:
> http://matilda.kottnet.net/archive/IRC/modeR.patch
> 
> The time between the checks should probably be changed to 1800 or 3600 
> seconds; it's set very low right now so that people testing it don't have to 
> wait for the reopping to occur.
> 
> Is this something that could be in either contrib/ or in the official release? 
> It's possible to turn it off in ircd.conf, in the same way as with +e and +I.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Martin

I've been requesting this feature for ages. I can test this in few days. Thank you for your efforts. Please give me your paypal-details off-list and I'll give you a acknowledgement if it works. I sure do hope this gets to trunk.

Have a nice day!

Best regards,
Henri Salo