Alpine Linux talk:IRC

Among the OFTC IRC Alpine channels, say, as listed at netsplit.de, should any/all of the following be added to update the IRC channels list? Riscv64 and LoongArch implementations are more recent ventures; other channels may be recent additions. Perhaps some channels may not be under Alpine Linux's aegis; I am not familiar if any are.

Logs for the first three channels below appear at the archives link that is offered in the wiki, viz:

#alpine-loongarch

For LoongArch64 porting efforts.

#alpine-riscv64

For riscv64 porting efforts.

#alpine-test

"No topic" - Could be more descriptive, if this channel is relevant to be listed

The following are not archived at the given link at present; would any be relevant to be included on the wiki page in due course:-

 #alpine-hardened
 #alpine-reproducible
 #alpine-rust
 #alpine-arm
 #alpine-zh
 #alpine-team
 #alpine-go
 #alpine
 #alpine-conf
 #alpine-ports
 #alpine-de

If this can be verified, feel free to copy the wiki code above (for LoongArch, riscv64, test) for whatever channels are appropriate into the wiki. Thank you. John3-16 (talk) 04:24, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks John3-16. Added to wikipage as per your suggestion. Thanks for improving the wiki. - Prabuanand (talk) 14:58, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Category

Needed to be categorized. Best assigned perhaps under a new subcategory 'IRC Clients' as a subcategory of 'Networking'? Please amend otherwise. John3-16 (talk) 03:30, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Modified category from 'IRC Clients' to 'IRC', as that is a more descriptive category for this page. The 'IRC' category would furthermore encompass more pages related to IRC than an 'IRC Clients' category: for illustration, consider that the following two wiki pages are currently uncategorised, and could be usefully categorised under 'IRC' – this will will be done shortly:-

• Alpine_Linux:IRC_Availability
• How To Setup Your Own IRC Network

The following two wiki pages are currently categorised in a broad category such as 'Server', which offers 84 pages and could be therefore be categorised in a more wieldy way under 'IRC' also:

• NgIRCd
• ZNC

Similarly, the following would be added to the 'IRC' category instead of only being categorised under the 'Networking' category that currently hosts 61 pages.

• Sircbot

The following IRC client would be reclassified under this 'IRC' category; otherwise, it would be on its own, as it stands, in the 'IRC Client' category.

• Quassel

John3-16 (talk) 16:25, 13 December 2025 (UTC)