On zen-kernel.org, that IRC channel is mentioned for support. Yet it does not exist / is empty upon joining.

The site zen-kernel.org itself is a placeholder too.

Leaving no way to report bugs that looks like anyone would read it.

If this here is the correct place to report bugs, I suggest linking to it from zen-kernel.org, and taking away the IRC paragraph.

It feels very untrustworthy to let someone create your kernel, that is practically impossible to reach. How about something more… human… Like a weekly consultation hour via XMPP+Jingle video conferencing (Jitsi is great at that, and offers SRTP+ZRTP too.) Or something equally… human.