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# Freenode IRC Administration Guidelines and Tips
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This is not meant to be a general "Here's how to IRC" document, so if you're
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looking for that, check Google instead. ♥
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If you've been charged with helping maintain one of Docker's now many IRC
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channels, this might turn out to be useful. If there's information that you
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wish you'd known about how a particular channel is organized, you should add
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deets here! :)
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## `ChanServ`
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Most channel maintenance happens by talking to Freenode's `ChanServ` bot. For
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example, `/msg ChanServ ACCESS <channel> LIST` will show you a list of everyone
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with "access" privileges for a particular channel.
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A similar command is used to give someone a particular access level. For
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example, to add a new maintainer to the `#docker-maintainers` access list so
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that they can contribute to the discussions (after they've been merged
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appropriately in a `MAINTAINERS` file, of course), one would use `/msg ChanServ
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ACCESS #docker-maintainers ADD <nick> maintainer`.
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To setup a new channel with a similar `maintainer` access template, use a
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command like `/msg ChanServ TEMPLATE <channel> maintainer +AV` (`+A` for letting
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them view the `ACCESS LIST`, `+V` for auto-voice; see `/msg ChanServ HELP FLAGS`
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for more details).
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## Troubleshooting
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The most common cause of not-getting-auto-`+v` woes is people not being
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`IDENTIFY`ed with `NickServ` (or their current nickname not being `GROUP`ed with
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their main nickname) -- often manifested by `ChanServ` responding to an `ACCESS
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ADD` request with something like `xyz is not registered.`.
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This is easily fixed by doing `/msg NickServ IDENTIFY OldNick SecretPassword`
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followed by `/msg NickServ GROUP` to group the two nicknames together. See
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`/msg NickServ HELP GROUP` for more information.
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