On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, 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). Someone who frequents the Struts IRC channel posted a message to the struts-dev mailing list not so long ago, asking if some of the Struts committers might consider participating there. There were no positive responses (to the list, at least), and several negative ones. The negative responses, including my own, reflected one or both of the following perspectives: 1) The struts-user mailing list is a large, established community, with multiple archives available. Many of the questions asked on this list have been asked before, and the answers are available in the archives. Many of those that have not been asked before result in the solutions being added to the existing archives for future users to find. Adding an IRC channel could easily fragment the user base, and therefore the community, and would almost certainly decrease the value of a single question being responded to in a single place, on the mailing list (or on IRC, for that matter). 2) Struts has committers in Europe, the USA, and Australia. The use of IRC discriminates against those who are not "up and about" and connected at the time a particular discussion is ongoing. It is highly unlikely that all of the Struts committers would be available to discuss issues at the same time. -- Martin Cooper > > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
