From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Amin Bandali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cleaning up rcirc Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:00:09 -0400 Message-ID: <87tuior05i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875yv7dqw7.fsf@posteo.net> <87sfy8g8pi.fsf@gnus.org> <87zgsgn52c.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1679"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn , Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 13 17:02:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mPnTX-0000Jv-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:02:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43620 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPnTW-0007Mu-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPnRn-0005md-4y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPnRh-00078X-Mv; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [2607:fea8:3fdf:f2d9:cda7:2a8f:bea3:c61b] (port=51126 helo=langa) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPnRL-0004Ul-ME; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:00:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87zgsgn52c.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274653 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Stefan Kangas 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=C2=A2, 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'.