#chromium is a channel for Chromium project contributors, not a support channel. We will not be making any changes to direct users there for support.
-Ben On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jason A. Spiro <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... >> IRC is absolutely the wrong >> method for support. Encouraging that makes everything worse. > > Why is it a bad method for support? > >> Some people will do things wrong. The number of people who are doing things >> wrong by joining the wrong IRC channel, a communication method which didn't >> so much stop being relevant for normal people as much as _never start being >> relevant_ for normal people, is vanishingly small. > ... > > Correct -- most people don't use IRC -- but you can install a Mibbit > web-IRC gateway applet on the Chrome support site, similar to what > Mozilla has done on their site. That will allow more non-geeks to use > IRC. Also, we can publicly log the channel, to make the archives > searchable; also, we can require that people search the forum archives > before asking questions in #chrome. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
