On 3 June 2011 19:55, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/02/11 02:02, Robert Ancell wrote: >> >> A huge +1 on this. IRC is much more productive, but it's crucial that >> it's logged for people who can't attend. (I'm always hitting this >> problem in GNOME trying to work out what happened while I was sleeping >> in Australia). >> This works really well in Ubuntu where everything is automatically >> logged: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/ > > Out of interest, how long after an IRC conversation that concerns you do you > typically find out about it? Do you read the entire IRC log of the relevant > channels every morning? > > How often do you actually go looking in the logs?
It's either something that happened in the last day or two, or something much later that I want to check for accuracy. I don't read entire logs, though I do review meetings that occur in the logs from time to time. I'd say I look up something in the Ubuntu logs a few times per month. > I really don't think IRC logs are a good way of communicating anything. It's > better than unlogged, but really only marginally. Sure, and they shouldn't be used as a replacement for communicating any formal information. What I miss in GNOME is not being able to read what happened in a meeting, or reading up the context of a decision. People copy snippets from IRC conversations into bug reports, and I want to read more about the decisions that were made. Also being out of sync with a lot of people means I can't just ask someone a question the next day, and it would be nice to just be able to check it in the logs. You potentially miss out a lot if your not in a common timezone, or a part time contributor (e.g. the design process). _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list