I am not a big IRC fan, though I am not against having one. I personally think the current mailinglist is efficient enough. People can answer if they are competent and when they have time.
Andreas
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Indeed IRC channels are not so good when it comes to preserve answers. That's why Apache doesn't promote this even though certain communities with a big enough community use IRC channels. But they use it mostly for discussing development issues and they sum up these discussions in the mailing list so they are archived.
For James I have a propsal: What about setting up a Wiki for Batik? In a Wiki all users (not just the developers) can work together to add documentation, gather ideas, to provide code snippets etc. We're already using a Wiki in FOP [1]. Setting one up for Batik wouldn't be a big deal.
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FrontPage
On 16.02.2005 10:56:48 James Shaw wrote:
Lasse Riis wrote:
Well I've already been in SVG sometimes (how I heard of Batik :)I too like IRC channels for an instant response (though you don't have to wait long on this mailing list ;-) My only concern is that others will not be able to search an IRC channel, like they could a mailing list, for solutions to their problems. I would, however, love to see some Java code snippets demonstrating some common uses of the Batik API (apologies if they already exist and I've missing them)
Maybe Batik doesn't have a userbase big enough to support a specific user channel?
I just personally like to have a place to pop those tiny questions that you simply can't find an answer to, and don't want write a maillinglist about (usually because of their size). It helps me out a lot when I'm programming. But maybe that says a lot more about my programming skills than it says about the need for a channel :)
Would it be unrealistic to have a channel? (or does it have horrible disadvantages that I'm not seeing)
Lasse Riis
Jeremias Maerki
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