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#31356 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Update IRC links in documentation.

Reported by:	Adam Johnson	Owned by:	Hasan Ramezani
Component:	Documentation	Version:	dev
Severity:	Normal	Keywords:
Cc:		Triage Stage:	Accepted
Has patch:	yes	Needs documentation:	no
Needs tests:	no	Patch needs improvement:	no
Easy pickings:	yes	UI/UX:	no

Description

There are a bunch of links and mentions of irc://irc.freenode.net in the Django documentation. Many people don't have an IRC client set up so sending them to irc:// protocol links isn't so much use. Also the official endpoint to connect to is chat.freenode.net these days - irc.freenode.net is a CNAME to it.

I think if we updated the documentation to point to the freenode "chat" page it would be the most use: https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat . This includes a link to the webchat interface as well as configuration instructions for connecting with an IRC client.

Change History (10)

comment:1 by Adam Johnson, 4 years ago

Easy pickings:	set

comment:2 by Ahisahar Pretel, 4 years ago

Owner:	changed from nobody to Ahisahar Pretel
Status:	new → assigned

Taking the issue if no one else is working on it

comment:3 by Ahisahar Pretel, 4 years ago

I checked and in the documentation there are references to irc://irc.freenode.net/django and irc://irc.freenode.net/django-dev . Should all of them be replaced by https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat specifying the name of the chat in the text itself and not into the link?