sön 5 maj 2024 kl. 05:57 skrev Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 4:15 PM Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 09:24:58PM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I’m personally not an IRC user but I try to keep an eye on the IRC logs. >> > For personal reasons I haven’t had time to do since the start of the >> year >> > but I spent some time tonight to browse the archives. >> > >> > Since January there were somewhere between 5 and 10 persons asking >> > questions and NO ONE got a timely reply. On the other hand we have had a >> > slow but steady stream of questions on users@ and they have received >> > replies from different members of the community. >> > >> > I think the lack of replies on IRC reflects badly on the community. I’m >> not >> > able to put any energy into following the IRC channels and I cannot ask >> > anyone else either. But I think the mailing lists could absorb these >> > questions and give timely answers. >> > >> > For this reason, I suggest that we discontinue the IRC channels (remove >> > them from libera.chat) or at least change the topic to indicate that >> they >> > are no longer “official” and to refer all questions to the mailing >> lists. >> > The website should of course be updated accordingly. >> > >> > Kind regards >> > >> > Daniel Sahlberg >> >> I am not sure whether outright removing (aka "dropping") our Libera >> channels from ChanServ is a good idea. Anyone could re-register a >> dropped channel and squat on the name and/or impersonate the project. >> >> Given this, I suppose the #svn users channel should be marked as >> unmaintained in the topic. Redirecting questions to the mailing >> list via the topic line should work well enough. >> >> The #svn-dev channel might still be useful for quick communication >> during bursts of increased project activity. I would keep it around. >> >> Cheers, >> Stefan > > > > I'd like to keep the IRC channels, at the very least so that someone won't > squat on the name as already mentioned, but I agree that we should update > the channel topics to direct user questions to the mailing list where they > are much more likely to receive a timely response. > > I'd also recommend to update our text on the website to say that the IRC > channels exist but the mailing lists are the more recommended way to > communicate. > > Cheers, > Nathan > Thanks both of you, valid points and valuable input! What about this new topic for #svn? [[[ The Apache® Subversion® version control system ( https://subversion.apache.org/) | Read the book: http://www.svnbook.org/ | FAQ: https://subversion.apache.org/faq.html | This channel has limited use, if you have questions please ask on the mailing list https://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists#users-ml ]]] And for #svn-dev: [[[ Development of Apache® Subversion® (https://subversion.apache.org/) | This channel has limited use, if you have questions please ask on the mailing list https://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists#dev-ml ]]] I've made a first draft of website updates to the staging site in r1917512. (At the same time, I saw that the svnforum.org site no longer is a forum, so I removed that reference in r1917511). Kind regards, Daniel
