Hi guys,
One of the action items decided on at wineconf was to set up an IRC channel for Wine developers. This channel now exists and is #winehackers. Key points to be aware of are:
* It's on freenode
* It is for developers only, user tech support (how do i run counterstrike?) etc should be/will be bounced to #winehq
* There are a lot of ops. This is intentional. Often on #winehq there are problems caused by users but there are no ops around (only like 3 guys have op access to it). Me (TD), Mike McCormack (mike_m) and Francois Gouget (fgouget) have the ability to add people to the auto-op list through virtue of being the first guys into the channel.
* The channel is modelled after #gnome-hackers on gimpnet, which has been a great success with buy-in from even their busiest, most core hackers (hint hint alexandre :)
* All wine hackers are welcome, this most explicitly includes WineX dudes
* No topic is offtopic.
Have fun! I'll submit a patch to add mention of it to the WineHQ website, but #gnome-hackers grew to a huge number of people just through word of mouth so there's no real hurry. Tell your friends, rescue budding wine hackers from the helpdesk that is #winehq etc. It's a resource that is there to be used, so use it.
thanks -mike