Re: Outreachy communication on debian-qa channels

[Comfort Oyewole <coyewole7@gmail.com>]

Hello Tassia and everyone,

Thanks for the warm welcome.
I can’t see any conversation happening in the IRC channel so far. Do you have another communication channel in mind that we can use instead?

Best,
Comfort

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 at 13:32, Tomris Teymurlu <tomristt9@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Tassia and everyone again,

Thanks for the warm welcome!

I also noticed that IRC messages seem to disappear when I reconnect.
Is there a way to see previous messages or logs when we restart the client or browser?
It would be helpful to keep up with important information during the contribution period.

Thanks!
Tomris

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 at 16:30, Godson Nwaubani <nwaubanig1@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you so much Tassia for the warm welcome. 

Seeing your mail made me know that someone actually saw us (the participants), we are finally home, smiles.

First, I have not used the IRC kind of communication channel before, still trying to understand how communication flows there.

When I rebooted my laptop and checked in back to the channel I realised that all the previous messages were gone, and that made me think like;

Is that what will happen when anyone drops a message and for any reason someone reboots or restarts his/her browser everything will be gone?

So basically that became my concern, which means we could literally miss out on important information within this period of contribution if sent through the IRC channel.

For instance, you dropped a challenge you are facing for your mentors to see and help you out and then for any reason either party restarts the browser all is gone.

If there is a remedy to persisting chats so it can be seen even after browser restart, that would be great and solve this concern of mine.

My thoughts, thank you,

Godson Nwaubani.

IRC: Godson

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM Tassia Camoes Araujo <tassia@riseup.net> wrote:

Hey debian-QA friends,

First of all, welcome to all Outreachy participants! Thanks for your
interest in Debian!!!

Now, let me just check an internal matter before we continue talking
here ;-)

I think we should have asked before, oups, but you've probably noticed
that we have used this mailing list and the IRC channel as communication
channels for the Outreachy internship project.

It will be about a month of higher traffic, for participants to try to
join the community and start making contributions, and by mid-november
things will calm down, when the selection process will take place. The
internship will then run from December to March.

We can still change those channels if anyone is annoyed by the higher
traffic. Should we do it now? What is your take on that?

Cheers,

Tassia.