On Sat, 29 May 2021 08:37:11 -0700 Jason Self <[email protected]> wrote: > Some GNU people run one or more IRC channel for their packages in a > variety of locations. There is a page on gnu.org [0] that is supposed > to list them but it's out of date and doesn't have them all. What > about including something in the maintainer guide along the lines of: > > > If you have or maintain an IRC channel for your package and would > > like to have it listed on the GNU IRC page please send an email to > > [email protected] with information about the name, location, and > > description. > > This information could be used to populate the irc-rules page. > > [0] https://www.gnu.org/server/irc-rules.html
On Sat, 29 May 2021 15:26:37 -0400 Amin Bandali <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason's suggestion here is merely about us telling package maintainers > to email [email protected] with information about the IRC channel(s) > of their packages, so we could document them in our records and > display a potentially auto-generated list of them somewhere on > gnu.org (much like how we publish lists of all current and > decommissioned packages). On Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:47:09 -0400 "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> wrote: > So I agree with Jason, and John. > > The rules where written without any input of anyone; but lets try and > see if we can update the list of overall GNU IRC channels that exist > first -- it is slightly orthogonal to the rules. The rules have -- as > Jason mentions -- existed for a long time anyway, and never really > been something that has ever reflected reality. We can amend them > later, or in a different thread I thought I would check in on this topic. There seems to be no objections to the suggestion from 5/29 about the collection of various IRC channels. Or to put it another way: Is there any reason to not ask GNU package maintainers for their IRC channels?
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