[Pkg-rust-maintainers] IRC room

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 06:30:08PM +0200, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote:
> 
> 
> > > For contacting Debian rust members I am trying to connect to
> > > the debian-rust chatroom on OFTC. But with polari I dont get
> > > a connection. Other Debian chatrooms on OFTC are no problem.
> > > 
> > > Any idea what happens? (the Polari log dont give a clue).
> > > I have a vaid UID/PW.
> > 
> > Hi Willem,
> > If you mean that you have a registered nickname on oftc which is authenticated
> > by NickServ, then it should work. I get kicked when the Matrix-IRC bridge
> > sometimes loses the credentials and I need to reauthenticate with NickServ.
> > I hope this helps and you manage to log into the channel.
> > I'm not sure, maybe there was a problem with IRC spammers in the past, so
> > maybe that's why the channel is configured like that. If not, then we could
> > loosen the requirement as far as I am concerned (but I'm no channel admin).
> > 
> > I'd love to see shortwave packaged, would be happy to see the current state of
> > your package.
> > 
> > BR, Wolfgang.
> > 
> Hello Willem,
> 
> About the Polari issue, this doc [0] explains how to authenticate your
> registered account against NickServ.
> 
> Maybe try that so that you can come and talk on #debian-rust.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> [0] https://help.gnome.org/users/polari/stable/irc-nick-password.html.en
> 

Today on IRC  (timestamps are in UTC+02:00)
|12:37 < stappers> wvdakker: there is now https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shortwave
|13:35 < hntourne> stappers: did wvdakker ever manage to join this channel ?
|                  He reported some IRC issues (regged nickrequirements or so)
|14:03  * stappers will ask the mailinglist


Thing I'm asking:

  When there is technical barrier to enter an IRC room, say so.





Groeten
Geert Stappers
-- 
Silence is hard to parse