Re: IRC Suggestion

[Jason Self]

On Sat, 29 May 2021 08:37:11 -0700
Jason Self <jself@gnu.org> 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 to list them but it's out of date and doesn't have them all.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
> > maintainers@gnu.org 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 <bandali@gnu.org> wrote:

> 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).

On Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:47:09 -0400
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> 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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