Re: IRC Suggestion

[Amin Bandali]

Jason Self writes:

> Do you have substantive comments about the other portion of my email?
>
> There is and has been a web page about the GNU Project's IRC channels
> for over 14 years [0] so this isn't something new. There has been and
> continues to be plenty of time to discuss the proper operation and
> moderation of such channels in other contexts. I'd like to keep this
> discussion on the topic of an update to the maintainer guide to ask for
> the collecting and documenting the names, locations and descriptions of
> the IRC channels for various GNU packages regardless of how they may or
> may not be operated or moderated.
>
> [0]
> http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/www/server/irc-rules.html?view=log
>

I agree.  We can discuss and decide later where that page should live
and what goes/remains in it (the irc-rules page will very likely be
subject to significant change, so let's not focus on that for now).
Jason's suggestion here is merely about us telling package maintainers
to email maintainers@gnu.org 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).

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