On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:41:27 -0000, "Greg Sabino Mullane"
<g...@turnstep.com> wrote:
> > I know that not everyone is in to IRC and I for one have only flirted
> > with it over the years but for the last 6 months or so I've frequented
> > the #dbi channel and there are a number of knowledgeable and helpful
> > people on it but there is a low representation from DBD authors/maintainers.
>
> You failed to mention what IRC server? I'm presuming /not/ freenode, but if
I opened this channel back in 2008:
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:06:51 +0200, "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl>
wrote:
> I'm now on irc.perl.org #dbi (alone with my bot)
> Has there ever been interrest in DBI related IRC? Is there another
> place, or are discussions deliberately restricted to this ML and/or
> private mail?
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and then you did reply, so you could have known :)
> ain't freenode, it's unlikely you'll get a lot of people, DBD authors or
> otherwise. I also think DBI is a bit of a specialized topic, but the only
> alternative is #perl, which is way too busy. Of course, people also get
> DBI/DBD help on the friendly database channels such as #mysql and #postgresql.
#dbi took of slowly in 2008, but gained a lot of momentum since. A
short analysis of my chatlog (which is not complete):
Lines typed by users per month in #dbi
2008 Aug 87
2008 Sep 105
2008 Oct 64
2008 Nov 77
2008 Dec 89
2009 Jan 100
2009 Feb 50
2009 Mar 54
2009 Apr 50
2009 May 218
2009 Jun 263
2009 Jul 67
2009 Aug 352
2009 Sep 101
2009 Oct 302
2009 Nov 218
2009 Dec 474
2010 Jan 136
2010 Feb 157
2010 Mar 1042
2010 Apr 433
Grouped by unified nick name:
acid2 => 2,
alexx => 2,
caelum => 12, # Rafael Kitover
davidslv => 3,
daxim => 10, # Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ
dr_dex1 => 2,
duxbellorum => 4,
formulaic => 11,
getty => 3,
hegde => 3,
jdb => 75, # Jan Dubois
jeremy-wrk => 1,
jhannah => 4,
jonasbn => 15,
joyce => 3,
kthakore => 23,
kuxv => 1,
martin => 115,
mike__b => 30,
mje => 160, # Martin J. Evans
mohan_ => 4,
mst => 36,
particle => 6,
pedr => 6,
pepl => 14,
raptelan => 1,
rkazak => 13,
schwern => 129, # Michael Schwern
slacker => 10,
sno| => 1058, # Jens Rehsack
sparkeyg => 27,
stephan48 => 2,
theory => 28, # David E. Wheeler
tux => 1486, # H.Merijn Brand
und3f => 1,
warpdesign => 10,
weasel000 => 5,
will => 2,
wolfgang => 6,
Feel free to draw your own conclusions though
--
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