There is an IRC channel irc://chat.freenode.net/#kohanews where a bot announces things happening in the Koha community. It monitors several RSS feeds and periodically sends updates to the channel. The current list of feeds that it monitors is:
Feel free to drop in and idle if it helps you keep an eye on current changes going on in the Koha community. If any actual discussion happens, though, you should probably take it to #koha on irc.katipo.co.nz, the real IRC channel for Koha.