IRC

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is Gentoo project.]]

IRC and Gentoo
Since chat messages are sent and received almost instantly, IRC allows the Gentoo project to have a very reactive collaboration processes.

There are Gentoo IRC channels for user support. For any issue, a preexisting solution should be sought using a search engine, the forums, mailing lists, and here on the wiki, before asking on a support channel.

Most Gentoo subprojects have a specific channel on Libera Chat for inter-project communication. Project-related channels are used for: tracking changes to source code, requesting and discussing (new) features, addressing various issues, real-time team meetings, internal support, and communication between Gentoo developers and the community.

Available software
The following table contains some of the IRC software available in Gentoo. Discover which client works best by emerging each one or by visiting each homepage:

Usage
Learning can be especially challenging when attempting to use a text-mode (CLI) client like Irssi or WeeChat. For this reason the IRC guide has been written. Head over there for in-depth information on many IRC related topics.

Spam protection
In order to prevent private message spam on IRC from unregistered users, one can set user modes  or.

Larry wants to ignore private messages from users who are not identified, but wants to get an information that someone wanted to send a message to Larry. Larry can decide to receive messages with the command:

/mode larry +g

Larry wants to ignore private messages from users who are not identified totally:

/mode larry +R

External resources

 * https://gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/
 * https://www.irchelp.org/ - A site dedicated to helping users understand IRC.
 * https://libera.chat/ - A next-generation IRC network for free and open source software projects and similarly-spirited collaborative endeavors.
 * https://libera.chat/guides/usermodes - Libera Chat article on user modes*
 * https://www.oftc.net/ - A stable and effective IRC network that provides collaboration services to members of the free software community in any part of the world.