On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:58:10 +0100, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Exactly! And that's why I wanted to use the status for something useful > for contributors, so they can quickly see who is what, and where to seek > for help depending on what they need. Of course, each maintainer will > have his/her own area of expertise, but at least they know who to look > up, ask, or identify during a discussion. > > ^shrug^ If people don't like that, I'll fold. From a 'your average new contributor' perspective this may make sense. For regulars the merit is practically gone, because they already know exactly who to talk to: everybody. From an IRC perspective Thiago's approach actually makes more sense than the one you proposed. Voice is quite the privilege already. My experience with giving people ops is that if new people have a question, they'll start a private chat with the ops or voiced, unless they know IRC etiquette. You'll want to keep most discussions inside of the channel, so a bit of uncertainty on who's who, may help in keeping most conversations public :P. On the other hand, maybe the effect is less when there's an abundance of ops, I haven't experienced that. Cheers, Frans _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
