Re: Maintainer of rcirc?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:31:12 -0800 Ryan Yeske <address@hidden> wrote: 

RY> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>> Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Is there any maintainer of rcirc? The reason that I'm asking is that
>>> there is a (rather important) patch which was submitted in February
>>> 2009 which no one seems to care about:
>>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2404
>>> 
>>> One user on #emacs tried applying the patch the other day and if I
>>> remember correctly, eight out of nine "hunks" were applied
>>> successfully, whereas one needed to be amended manually, so it is
>>> still usable. The patch makes it possible to connect to servers which
>>> require a password. Could someone please apply it?
>> 
>> I believe rcirc is still maintained by Ryan Yeske.  CC'ing him...

RY> Yes I am still maintaining rcirc, though I haven't been as responsive to
RY> patches and bug reports as I would like to be.  I apologise for that.

RY> I will review this report and patch, and follow up in the next few days.

Ryan, could you look at auth-source.el and see if you can use it in
rcirc while you're adding password support?  It should be trivial,
there's just one function to call (see in gnus/nnimap.el for example
usage).  Let me know if you need a patch; I don't use rcirc personally
so I had not thought of this sooner.

Thanks
Ted