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 Get involved
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-If you have questions or feedback, join the #kpatch IRC channel on
-[Libera](https://libera.chat) and say hi.
-
 Contributions are very welcome.  Feel free to open issues or PRs on github.
 For big PRs, it's a good idea to discuss them first in github
-issues/discussions or on IRC before you write a lot of code.
+issues/discussions before you write a lot of code.
 
 
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