IRC Clients join Ubuntu channels by default
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Guadalinex |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Guadalinex Members | ||
Guadalinex Edu |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
David Erosa |
Bug Description
Many of the IRC Client packages in Ubuntu are setup to join #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net by default. #Ubuntu is our official support channel and is English only (we have a number of channels for other languages[0], but they aren't joined by default). Since Gaudalinex is a derivative, it appears to inherit these settings. We have had a large number of Guadalinex users join lately who speak little or no English. This is becoming distracting and impacting on the level of support we can give as we are spending a lot of time directing these users elsewhere.
The Ubuntu IRC Council [1] would like to request that the default IRC channel for these applications be changed to somewhere more appropriate for Guadalinex users.
[0] https:/
[1] https:/
Changed in guadalinexedu: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in guadalinexedu: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
assignee: | nobody → David Erosa (erosa) |
Changed in guadalinexedu: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in guadalinex: | |
assignee: | nobody → Guadalinex Members (guadalinex-members) |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Have you any statistics of Ubuntu users grouped by native language? If spanish is one of the top three maybe a new channel could be interesting.
To avoid this kind of 'bug' a list of packages were "Ubuntu" or "Canonical" is hardcoded or configured by default could be handy as well.