We might need to move our IRC channels on Freenode to Liberachat and have already created several #mageia channels on Liberachat just in case. You're welcome to visit them on the Libera Chat Network (ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697)
Connect to server ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697 and type /join channelname, replacing channelname with the name of the channel (including the leading "#"). All channels use English unless otherwise specified. Using a secure connection with SSL by connecting to port 6697 is obligatory.
The intention is to have a backup on Liberachat for each of our channels on Freenode. You can find them below, but some might not yet be populated or registered. If you have a question about an empty channel, then please ask in #mageia
The channels may in future host regular meetings (see summaries and logs ), especially if we can no longer have them on Freenode.
Project-wide channels:
- #mageia (main project)
- #mageia-board
- #mageia-chat (General chat and Mageia community building)
- #mageia-council
- #mageia-meeting
Team specific:
- #mageia-atelier (atelier team)
- #mageia-arm (A place where you help to further develop the Mageia ARM-build for ARM-supported devices)
- #mageia-bugsquad (Bug Squad)
- #mageia-dev (developers, packagers, Bug Squad teams)
- #mageia-doc (documentation team)
- #mageia-forums (Forums team)
- #mageia-i18n (translators team)
- #mageia-kde (KDE-specific)
- #mageia-mentoring (Packaging-specific for mentors and apprentices)
- #mageia-qa (QA team)
- #mageia-sysadm (sysadmin team)
- #mageia-urpmi (A chan for urpmi development)
Other:
- The #mageia-social channel we had on Freenode, for General chat and Mageia community building, has become #mageia-chat on Liberachat.
Unofficial project channels
- ##mageia-bcm (A small project to replace the original firmware with a Mageia-based one in TV's that have a Broadcom board)
- ##mageia-most (Also a small project to replace original firmware with a Mageia-based one in TV's that have a Saturn board)
Some channels have useful bots; learn about them.
Channels in other languages
- #mageia-br (Português do Brasil)
- #mageia-cn (简体中文)
- #mageia-de (Deutsch)
- #mageia-eo (Esperanto)
- #mageia-es (Español)
- #mageia-et (Estonian)
- #mageia-el (Greek)
- #mageia-fi (Finnish)
- #mageia-fr (français)
- #mageia-hu (Hungarian)
- #mageia-it (Italiano)
- #mageia-no (Norsk)
- #mageia-pl (Polski)
- #mageia-ru (Русский)
- #mageia-se (Svenska)
- #mageia-tr (Türkiye)
Channels for specific location/area
- #mageia-uk (for United Kingdom; English)
- #mageia-za (for South Africa; English, Afrikaans)
How to add a channel - Naming rules
- use the suffix you want in the #mageia-{suffix} format
- reserved are -council, -board and other roles/teams related ones - ask in case of doubt;
- you may actually use a totally different name for your channel, that won't prevent from being referenced;
- consider if you are targeting: a common language, a common location or country or something else; or if it doesn't matter;
- for the i18n channels please use #mageia-i18n-{language_code}, e.g #mageia-i18n-fr for the French channel. #mageia-{language_code} is better for a general language specific discussion channel
- ask in #mageia to get your channel approved and listed with all Mageia-related channels and/or registered. Don't be shy and repeat your question at least daily until you get an answer.
- first come, first served.
