<div dir="ltr">I had not discovered the channels like openstack-ansible. I just googled for the channel list. "openstack" is described as being meant for general questions. When I need to I'll try and use a more specific topic channel. Thanks for the advice. <div><br>For reference, the channel list is <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC</a> <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><br></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a name="SignatureSanitizer_SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Tony Pearce</span></b></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">  
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</p><p> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 11:41, Mike Carden <<a href="mailto:mike.carden@gmail.com">mike.carden@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 2:25 PM Tony Pearce <<a href="mailto:tony.pearce@cinglevue.com" target="_blank">tony.pearce@cinglevue.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p>With regards to IRC - in my experience, once you get passed the authentication problems and often session timeout/kick out, you see the chat room with 300 people but no one chatting or answering. Kind of reduces the worth of the chatroom this way in my opinion. Although, I am in Australia so the timezone I am in could be a contributor.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm also in Australia, but my IRC experience has been different from yours. I find that the individual, project-specific OpenStack IRC channels are a great resource, often attended by really helpful experts. 'openstack-ansible' 'openstack-ironic' 'openstack-qa' etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I keep a teeny tiny VM running in Google's cloud (AU 20 cents a month) to run quassel core so I have a 24/7 IRC connection to channels I watch so that people can reply to me while I'm asleep and I can catch up the next day.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>MC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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