GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 614998
Legacy documentation and support channels need updating.
Last modified: 2010-07-04 16:37:50 UTC
Two major black eyes here: 1) http://xchat-gnome.navi.cx/ is non-functional, but it's still the first result from google. This page should really be shut down, or made into a simple redirect to http://live.gnome.org/Xchat-Gnome , so google starts picking up on it. In addition, the "Help:About" dialog still points there. Does anybody know who's in charge of running navi.cx? Have any contacts at all? The page is clearly abandoned, and the blog comment system appears to be broken (new comments are not posted successfully.) 2) IRC channel #xchat-gnome on irc.freenode.org: This is still listed as the official channel, but it's currently "owned" by freenode staff. This can be corrected by a project organizer (Presumably, someone taking charge of current development of xchat-gnome) filling in a form as documented at http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml This looks pretty straightforward, and just takes some processing time on freenode's part. The #xchat-gnome is often empty, and most messages/queries go unanswered. This situation can improve, and probably will if the visibility of the channel's proper documentation improves (my theory :) ) Anyone involved in the project particularly want to take the steps to register with freenode? I could do it in a pinch, but I'd want some sort of "blessing" to go forward on the part of an active developer.
> In addition, the "Help:About" dialog still points there. This will be fixed with the next release. > http://xchat-gnome.navi.cx/ is non-functional, but it's still the first Thanks for pointing this one out. I am looking this up further. > 2) IRC channel #xchat-gnome on irc.freenode.org: This is still listed as the Thanks, noted. > The #xchat-gnome is often empty, and most messages/queries go unanswered. This I am planning to add a mailing list.
The xchat-gnome-list has been created on mail.gnome.org.
I've tried emailing everyone I think that could be related to the project and/or domain. At least 3 of these are for David Trowbridge. Any thoughts on an updated contact for him? trowbrds@src.gnome.org, trowbrds@gmail.com, chpe@gnome.org, micah@navi.cx, trowbrds@cs.colorado.edu micah@navi.cx replied with: > David was the author and maintainer of xchat-gnome. I own the server, > and as far as I can tell the site is still fine- it just hasn't been > updated for a long time. David isn't actively developing the project > any more. If others have taken over development, they should > coordinate with David to either transfer control of the original site, > or have a redirector put in. I let him know that x-g devs have been trying to get in touch with him... we'll see if that goes anywhere.
website has been updated to point back to http://live.gnome.org/Xchat-Gnome This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.