Re: Cleaning up rcirc

[Amin Bandali]

Tassilo Horn writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>>> > Oh, and another thing I was thinking about. Currently the default
>>> > value for rcirc-server-alist connects the user to irc.libera.chat
>>> > and lets them join #rcirc. I was wondering if it would be ok to add
>>> > #emacs to this list too, seeing as rcirc is implied to be the
>>> > default IRC client for Emacs (by "M-x irc"). I can imagine that
>>> > since the channel is not directly affiliated to the GNU project,
>>> > that there might be objections?
>>>
>>> Adding #emacs is fine, I think.
>>
>> Is the #rcirc channel very active?
>
> 12 Users right now but it's pretty quiet.  There's an rcirc question
> maybe every few days and nothing much else.
>
>> If not, would it perhaps make sense to have only #emacs in that list?
>
> I don't know.  #rcirc is a very quiet channel but on-topic, #emacs is
> very active but has lots of off-topic discussions, too.  If I had an
> rcirc-related question, I'd try on #rcirc first.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo

To add my 2¢, I'd be in favour of keeping #rcirc and adding #emacs
as well.  While strictly speaking #emacs has historically not been
under the GNU umbrella of channels, the group of volunteers that
op/moderate it does include GNU-affiliated folks, including myself.
Further, it's been listed on https://www.gnu.org/server/irc-rules.html
for years, so I'd say it's fine to add it to `rcirc-server-alist'.