Re: [PATCH] MyFirstContribution: link #git-devel to Libera Chat

[Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com>]

On 08-Jun-2021, at 22:53, Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> 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