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Charter

The IRCv3 working group is chartered to prototype, develop and test further incremental changes to the IRC client protocol. It does not define any other aspect of an IRC network, such as IRC services, or the server-to-server protocol, although the changes it develops may require cooperation from vendors in both areas.

Participation

Interested stakeholders are encouraged to participate in the group. We consider stakeholders to be:

  • Developers of IRC daemons which are actively used;
  • Developers of IRC clients with widespread usage;
  • Developers of other software relating to the IRC ecosystem with widespread usage (such as IRC services, bots, bouncers, libraries);
  • Developers from IRC networks greater than 1,000 active at-peak users which have adopted the IRCv3 specifications.

Other users may participate in the group in a semi-moderated fashion. We encourage developers of new software relating to IRC to participate in the public resources.

Resources

  • The ircv3/ircv3-specifications Github repository and issue tracker. The Github repository is the official repository containing the latest version of the official specifications. Changes are to be submitted using a pull request. We request that pull requests not be submitted to social media aggregators, as we have no mechanism to moderate the bug tracker efficiently.

Atheme provides the following resources to the group.

  • The #ircv3 channel at irc.atheme.org. This is the main public space for the working group. You are required to follow specific rules to participate in this IRC channel, else you may be removed at any time.

  • The #ircv3-dev channel at irc.atheme.org. This is a read-only channel, where the only participants allowed to write to it are active stakeholders as described above. The same rules apply to #ircv3-dev that apply to #ircv3.

Ground Rules

To ensure smooth operations of the working group, we request that:

  • Participants assume good faith from other participants. The stakeholders have full moderation privilege over the working group resources and may make moderation decisions if one or more participants is unable to assume good faith.

  • Participants do not use social media aggregators to "bomb" working group resources because they do not personally agree with a change being made.

  • Participants maintain a respectful and professional atmosphere. This means no use of coercive threats to force cooperation.

  • Participants refrain from soapboxing on the IRC channels. If there is an issue that needs that level of discussion, a bug or pull request should be filed and discussed on the tracker.