[advocacy-discuss] public IRC channels?

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:45 -0600, Mark Martin wrote:
> In the following forwarded post, it appears as though Mike is
> referring to an internal IRC channel (#onv-scm).

There is, in fact, an #onnv-scm channel on freenode.

(There is a sun-internal #onnv channel, however).

>   Are there plans to
> open those (irc channels) up? 

Planning and IRC seem to be contradictory -- it just happens.

>  I know about the existing #opensolaris
> on freenode, but that is largely user/admin biased.  I've often wished
> there were developer-oriented IRC channels for the projects or groups
> I'm involved in, and I know it's been bemoaned before about the amount
> of communication that occurs behind the firewall.  If this is
> documented somewhere, I apologize for not finding it.

Some other projects have both #foo and #foo-dev channels.

So we could trivially create (through usage) an #opensolaris-dev on freenode.

						- Bill