Sam Ruby wrote:
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Are there any policies regarding IRC use, and is there an infrastructure
participation in setting on an IRC channel for a project, or do we just go
do something? Several ASF projects use IRC, including tomcat, mod_perl,
Struts, Jelly, and others. It appears that at least those hosted by Werken
maintain IRC archives to supplement the mail archives (I suspect that all
do).
My own views on this:
1) People should not be any more upset about the use of IRC than they should if two committers on a project happen to bump into each other at an ApacheCon and take the opportunity to discuss a problem that they are working on.
+1 I routinely talk over IM personally with other developers. I'm getting used to give them a "good-morning" respective to their time-zones :-)
2) This being said, no *DECISIONS* should be made on behalf of projects in this manner. In particular, VOTES should be on mailing list unless there is consensus by all the participants otherwise.
I would add that also *discussions* are to be done on the mailing lists. Having just votes would be almost only a formality. IMs are great for Random Thoughts and birth of new ideas or quick problem solving, not to discuss things at lengths. Anyway, IMHO there are so many free IMs systems available that till it becomes a problem we can use those with no problem.
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