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Fedora uses the freenode IRC network for it's IRC communications. If you want to make a new Fedora Related IRC Channel, please follow the following guidelines.


== Contact Information ==
This SOP has moved to the fedora Infrastructure SOP git repo. Please see the current document at: http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/infra/docs/freenode-irc-channel.rst
Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team


Contact: #fedora-admin
For changes, questions or comments, please contact anyone in the Fedora Infrastructure team.


Location: freenode
Servers: none
Purpose: Provides a channel for Fedora contributors to use.
== Is a new channel needed? ==
First you should see if one of the existing Fedora channels will meet your needs. Adding a new channel can give you a less noisy place to focus on something, but at the cost of less people being involved. If you topic/area is development related, perhaps the main #fedora-devel channel will meet your needs?
== Adding new channel ==
* Make sure the channel is in the #fedora-* namespace. This allows the Fedora Group Coordinater to make changes to it if needed.
* Found the channel. You do this by /join #channelname, then /msg chanserv register #channelname
* Setup GUARD mode. This allows ChanServ to be in the channel for easier management: /msg chanserv set #channel GUARD on
* Add Some other Operators/Managers to the access list. This would allow them to manage the channel if you are asleep or absent.
/msg chanserv access #channel add NICK manager or /msg chanserv access #channel add NICK op
You may want to consider adding some or all of the folks in #fedora-ops who manage other channels to help you with yours.
You can see this list with /msg chanserv access #fedora-ops list
* Set default modes. /msg chanserv set mlock #channel +Ccnt (The t for topic lock is optional if your channel would like to have people change the topic often).
* If your channel is of general interest, add it to the main communicate page of IRC Channels, and possibly announce it to your target audience.
== Recovering/fixing an existing channel ==
* If there is an existing channel in the #fedora-* namespace that has a missing founder/operator, please contact the Fedora Group Coordinator: [[User:Spot]] and request it be reassigned. Follow the above procedure on the channel once done so it's setup and has enough operators/managers to not need reassiging again.


[[Category:Infrastructure SOPs]]
[[Category:Infrastructure SOPs]]

Latest revision as of 18:53, 20 July 2015

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ISOP:NEWIRCCHANNEL


This SOP has moved to the fedora Infrastructure SOP git repo. Please see the current document at: http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/infra/docs/freenode-irc-channel.rst

For changes, questions or comments, please contact anyone in the Fedora Infrastructure team.