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.
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 any *significant* knowledge exchanged should be posted (like a bug found, some mis-documented feature, ...)
I mean that a problem with IM (or even IRC) is that knowledge stays out of public, auditable places. This has already happened to me with IRC discussions, because none of the involved people posted the "discovery" or insight gained during the meeting to the project list.
Regards,
Santiago- Sam Ruby
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