![]() Note that many of the active participants in that channel are active only during US daylight time, corresponding to timezones EST (UTC-5), CST (UTC-6), PST (UTC-8). Please be kind, and please wait in the channel. Other times you might have to wait several hours until one of the core developers wakes up. Sometimes you'll get an answer within seconds. Questions If you have a question, please ask it right away. When you join the GnuCash IRC channel, you should speak up. Lines that begin with will not show up on the web page logs. If you want to say something that shouldn't be logged, prepend your text by the prefix which should stand for "off-the-record". The timestamps in the log pages are given in EST (UTC-5). The discussions in the GnuCash irc channel are logged on a public web page: You should then be connected and can type your question or comment in the box at the bottom and it should appear on the main screen when you press enter, and then wait for an answer. Once downloaded you click on the chat now button and you get the home screen, you then need to click on server (because the server is not in the list) and enter, then choose a nickname to use (this can probably be anything), then enter #gnucash in the channel box and then click connect and wait. ![]() I have tried a number of the programs mentioned above and the only one that worked and was relatively easy to use was Mibbit. Note for information Unless you have used Chat programs before it is not very simple or intuitive to use them. After that, your IRC application might have a input field labeled Join Channel, in which you can specify to join the #gnucash channel.Īlternatively, you can perform these two steps by entering the following commands at the command prompt of an IRC application: In many IRC applications you will be asked to specify the server to connect to. The discussion forum for GnuCash is hosted on the following server and has the following channel name: ![]() JoinĪny IRC application first needs to connect to an IRC server. Communication targets In a normal chat windowĬommands to your client or a server are prefixed by / (Slash) and commands to our gncbot by (At). That means that the #gnucash IRC channel on is no longer the one monitored by the GnuCash team. Since end of November 2022 The Gnome infrastructure team has changed the alias for from to. Depending on the client you are using, you will have to enter either the netwok name or a server address. Its server name is as it it used by many GTK+ based appplications. The official GnuCash channel is on the network named GIMPNet. Usageįor historical reasons there are several IRC networks. Non ASCII characters To get the right presentation of non ASCII characters like umlauts or accents, you should set the encoding of your client to UTF-8 instead of e.g. So please adjust the settings and feel free to report the adjustments here.
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