On 08-Jun-2021, at 22:53, Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 07:21:14PM +0530, Atharva Raykar wrote: >> >> It's pretty safe to say that most of the regulars on #git-devel are now >> on Libera Chat. This will help new contributors find the right place, if >> they choose to ask questions on `#git-devel`. >> >> Since there seems to be no way to directly link Libera's web chat to >> `#git-devel` directly, > > I just typed "web.libera.chat/#git-devel" and it worked perfectly fine. > >> I have put a generic link over the text 'Libera >> Chat'. Users will have to manually type `#git-devel` in the webchat >> interface, but that should be obvious enough to not be worth mentioning. > > Generally, this is a bad approach to take for absolute-beginner > documents like this one. Even if it "should" be obvious, why not just > say it? Some skills - like how to examine the compiler errors from your > C compiler and fix your code accordingly - are a necessary prerequisite > to be useful on the Git project; other skills - like how to use IRC - > are not, and we can teach them, especially in a guide like this :) Got you. In fact, the fault in my reasoning was perfectly demonstrated by the fact that I did not attempt one of the most "obvious" ways to get the link to #git-devel directly. I cannot decide what's obvious for other people :) > But anyway it's moot, as direct link does seem to work. > >> [...] > > The prior link was a direct link to the #git-devel channel, so that > newbies don't need to figure out how to join the channel they want from > the main webchat landing page. It looks like Libera also supports this > functionality. So please link to 'https://web.libera.chat/#git-devel' > instead. Sure. I'll send another patch. > [...] > > Thanks very much for sending the patch. I haven't had time to address it > myself. > > - Emily
