freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Would someone here care to set us up an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net? 
  I think 'cygwinx' would be an appropriate name.

We could have some development discussions there as well as answering 
questions from users.  I think it would be a beneficial format.

With that being said, I don't op IRC channels, so someone else could 
probably do a much better job setting this up than I could.

Any volunteers?  I'd like to get it setup within the next few hours, if 
possible.

Harold

Re: freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Jay Smith]

Harold,

I hope you are not suggesting that this entire newsgroup/list would move to 
IRC.

Jay

Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/27/2003 02:52 PM:
> Would someone here care to set us up an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net? 
>  I think 'cygwinx' would be an appropriate name.
> 
> We could have some development discussions there as well as answering 
> questions from users.  I think it would be a beneficial format.
> 
> With that being said, I don't op IRC channels, so someone else could 
> probably do a much better job setting this up than I could.
> 
> Any volunteers?  I'd like to get it setup within the next few hours, if 
> possible.
> 
> Harold

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Re: freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Of course not, don't be silly.

This is something that we could do in addition to this mailing list.

I like the format of IRC and I think I could answer questions more 
quickly there.  I also think that some development discussions would be 
better off in IRC.  It is something I want to try, that is all.

Harold

Jay Smith wrote:

> Harold,
> 
> I hope you are not suggesting that this entire newsgroup/list would move 
> to IRC.
> 
> Jay
> 
> Harold L Hunt II said the following on 10/27/2003 02:52 PM:
> 
>> Would someone here care to set us up an IRC channel on 
>> irc.freenode.net?  I think 'cygwinx' would be an appropriate name.
>>
>> We could have some development discussions there as well as answering 
>> questions from users.  I think it would be a beneficial format.
>>
>> With that being said, I don't op IRC channels, so someone else could 
>> probably do a much better job setting this up than I could.
>>
>> Any volunteers?  I'd like to get it setup within the next few hours, 
>> if possible.
>>
>> Harold
> 
> 

Re: freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Alexander Gottwald]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I like the format of IRC and I think I could answer questions more
> quickly there.  I also think that some development discussions would be
> better off in IRC.  It is something I want to try, that is all.

Discussing in the messaging systems (irc or icq) is sometimes more productive
than via email. Especially when trying new ideas or debugging strange errors.

I like the idea of setting up the channel. But the where and how should be
discussed by the people who are more comfortable with this topic than I am.

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Re: freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>I like the format of IRC and I think I could answer questions more
>>quickly there.  I also think that some development discussions would be
>>better off in IRC.  It is something I want to try, that is all.
> 
> 
> Discussing in the messaging systems (irc or icq) is sometimes more productive
> than via email. Especially when trying new ideas or debugging strange errors.

I agree.  IRC will help us to be more productive.

> I like the idea of setting up the channel. But the where and how should be
> discussed by the people who are more comfortable with this topic than I am.

Hmm... bummer... I was hoping that someone would have some knowledge 
about setting up a channel on freenode.net.  I'm not having a lot of 
luck figuring out how they do it.  The documentation they have tells how 
you should operate your channel, but it doesn't tell you if the channels 
have to registered/reserved and doesn't tell you how to go about doing 
that if that is the case.

I don't want to pester the freedesktop.org folks asking them too many 
questions about IRC...

Harold

Re: freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I don't want to pester the freedesktop.org folks asking them
> too many questions about IRC...

I may be able to help you. I'm fredlwm.

But first do a
/msg chanserv help
/msg chanserv help register
...

:-)

I don't even know if your nickname is registered. If it isn't,
do a
/msg nickserv help
/msg nickserv help register
...

/msg nickserv register password is enough.

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Re: freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Frédéric,

Thanks!  That is all I needed to know!

Harold

Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't want to pester the freedesktop.org folks asking them
>>too many questions about IRC...
> 
> 
> I may be able to help you. I'm fredlwm.
> 
> But first do a
> /msg chanserv help
> /msg chanserv help register
> ...
> 
> :-)
> 
> I don't even know if your nickname is registered. If it isn't,
> do a
> /msg nickserv help
> /msg nickserv help register
> ...
> 
> /msg nickserv register password is enough.
> 

Re: freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Would someone here care to set us up an IRC channel on
> irc.freenode.net? I think 'cygwinx' would be an appropriate
> name.

Any particular reason to create it on irc.freenode.net instead
of irc.oftc.net ?

I don't use IRC that often anymore, don't know if anything
changed since then, but would read
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/17/2147232.shtml before
considering having a channel on freenode. I recall the
#kernelnewbies move.

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Re: freenode.net - IRC channel for the project?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Frédéric,

Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> Any particular reason to create it on irc.freenode.net instead
> of irc.oftc.net ?

Three other channels that I monitor are on irc.freenode.net... in 
particular, the freedesktop.org folks are there and I see us working 
closely with them.

> I don't use IRC that often anymore, don't know if anything
> changed since then, but would read
> http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/17/2147232.shtml before
> considering having a channel on freenode. I recall the
> #kernelnewbies move.

I think we will be okay.  There are still lots of very high profile 
projects on freenode.net.

Harold