471957 - Link to specific IRC channels on mozilla.org/community/forums/

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, enhancement)

Description

[Graham Perrin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-gb) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
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At http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html#chat there's reference to 

> irc.mozilla.org 

with no particular channel. At the referring page https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html there is no mention of IRC. 

Today in irc://irc.mozilla.org/#mbo I received excellent advice, including references to two other IRC channels.

I shouldn't expect to see a long list of specific channels at either http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html#chat or https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html but maybe at the Bugzilla Etiquette page you could add a reference to:

irc://irc.mozilla.org/#mbo

Some other channel may be a better starting point. At your discretion :)

Thanks
Graham

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
Reference to a specific IRC channel will be very helpful to users (such as me) who prefer IRC to news/NNTP.

If irc://irc.mozilla.org/#mbo is 
comparable to irc://irc.freenode.net/#freenode 
then http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml may be of interest
( http://www.diigo.com/04ioq for highlights).

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

A reference to http://irc.mozilla.org/ might also be useful.

Comment 2

[Graham Perrin]

/me agrees with Gavin and apologises for the (slightly dyslexic) typos; wherever I wrote 
mbo
it should be 
bmo

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I'm not sure #bmo is the correct channel for support - that's the sysadmin's channel IIRC.

The etiquette page is about etiquette. But I'm sure some of the major channels could be listed on developer-forums.html. Patch welcome :-)

Gerv

Comment 4

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Closing old Mozilla.org website bugs due to them not being relevant to the new Python-based Bedrock system. Re-open if this is a critical bug and should be resolved on the new system too.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Still relevant...

Comment 6

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

I think this is enough:

> Realtime Chat
> 
> You can talk to people in the community in real time by logging 
> on Mozilla's chat server with an IRC client. Please read the /motd.