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 ## Getting in contact
 
-The IRC channel on freenode is #gerrit. An archive is available at:
-[echelog.com](https://echelog.com/logs/browse/gerrit).
-
 The Developer Mailing list is [repo-discuss on Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/repo-discuss).
 
 ## License