GNU Hurd/ IRC

While all official development takes place on the mailing lists and the Savannah trackers, a lot of discussions are had on IRC as well. Everybody is welcome to join and follow these channels, but please respect the below guidelines if you want to participate.

Asking Questions

Before asking a question, first make an effort to find the answer to your question. A lot of questions have been asked and answered before, so please spend some time trying to solve the problem on your own (e.g., search the web, search these web pages, etc.), and show us that you did so when you ask your question.

When asking, (1) be details, and (2) demonstrate that you have made an effort, e.g., "I am having trouble frobbing the foo. I searched the web and only found information regarding how to frob a bar, but that seems unrelated." Provide as many relevant details as possible reproducing them as exactly as possible.

Also consider these guidelines.

Staying On-Topic

Please try to stay on topic.

Pasting Logs

Sometimes providing a log or some other excerpt of text can help solve a problem or answer a question. Do not paste the log in the channel itself. Instead use a paste bin.

Rich Text

Don't use it. Don't use colors. Don't use bold. Don't use emphasis.

Greeting

If you never contribute to the discussion, there is no need to always greet the channel when you enter and before leave.

Regular Meetings

Starting in early 2008, there have been regular IRC meetings held between the (now former) GSoC students and their mentors. These continue to take place even that the Google Summer of Code 2008 is over, and still take place, currently every Tuesday and Friday at 12:00 UTC in the #hurd channel. Of course, the meetings are not only for (former) GSoC students and mentors, but open to any interested party. So, everyone, take your chance to chat with GNU Hurd developers!

Channels

All Hurd IRC channels are hosted on Freenode.net.

Local user channels include:

Channel logs

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