387295 - NSS web page references #mozcrypto channel that doesn't exist

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Documentation, defect, P3)

Description

[Daniel Black]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux; en_US) KHTML/3.5.5 (like Gecko)
Build Identifier: http://irc.mozilla.org/

not listed here http://irc.mozilla.org/ either.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. connect to irc.mozilla.org
2. /join mozcrypto
3. look for wonderful crowd of people

Actual Results:  
4. cry at empty channel

Expected Results:  
4. helpful people enthused about #mozcrypto magicly appear.

Comment 1

[timeless]

sorry. the channel exists when people come. there aren't many such hackers, and they don't often appear on irc.

Comment 2

[Daniel Black]

is it worth documenting on http://irc.mozilla.org/ then?

Comment 3

[timeless]

i don't see why.

Comment 4

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

I think this is a legitimate complaint.  #mozcrypto died due to lack of 
interest years ago, and today, none of the NSS folks even try to go there
on any regular basis.  So, I think the page should be changed to stop 
mentioning it, and should instead point people to the newsgroup and mailing
list.  

I'm going to change this into an NSS documentation bug so it will show up
on the NSS radar.

Comment 5

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

The issue is this sentence on the web page 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/index.html

   To participate in ongoing technical discussions related to NSS, 
   tune in to the IRC channel #mozcrypto on the server irc.mozilla.org.

We really should delete that, and perhaps add a reference to the page 
where people can subscribe to the mailing list, e.g. 
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto

Comment 6

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Attachment: patch v1

How's this?

Comment 7

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 271951 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v1

This patch is more minimal than I had previously proposed.  Let me know if it suffices.

Comment 8

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Checking in index.html; new revision: 1.74; previous revision: 1.73