Open Stack

It got renamed a couple of months/year ago to #openstack-stable:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-ci/+bug/1360324

Documentation should have been updated to reflect this change.

Channel being invite-only is probably a side-effect of the migration.

Mathieu

On 2016-03-09 12:48 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> Someone showed up in the -stable channel this morning asking for help
> with packaging. I gather they were there because the IRC wiki [1] says
> the #openstack-stable channel is also for packaging discussions, given
> -stable originated from distro people.
> 
> I redirected them to https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Packaging which
> points to https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PackagerResources which says:
> 
> "The #openstack-packaging channel on Freenode is available for packaging
> collaboration and discussion."
> 
> Great!
> 
> However, you have to apparently be invited to join the elite
> #openstack-packaging channel.
> 
> What gives? Is that channel dead? Is there something else? Is there a
> secret handshake I can learn to palms to grease to get in?
> 
> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC
>