On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 11:34:02PM +0530, Atharva Raykar wrote: > > 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 :) Or maybe Libera thought it was too obvious to document? :thinkyface: Thanks again, looking forward to v2 :) - Emily
