2011/3/27 Martin Bähr <mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at>:
> it is really unfortunate that i am just to busy these days to hang out
> on irc. it is much easier to follow a discussion on lists when i am
> busy, because i can pick subjects which are interesting to me, i can
> read them any time, and reply any time later, and catch up on other
> stuff later.

That's why OSS communities should avoid "the water cooler".
http://communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Water_cooler

And why the apache policy "If it didn't happen on a mailing list, it
didn't happen." [0]

And why gnome/kde/freedesktop/ubuntu got a trouble recently in their
relationship. [1]

This 'we are a friendly bunch on IRC' brotherhood is actually
hindering the growth of our community. I think we should really think
about the habit of using IRC for too much.

I actually received quite a lot of feedback about this topic on IRC
(more than here on the mailing list). Thanks eMBee for extracting the
final agreement and posting it here.

And people have agreed to do a release this Sunday with fl:2-qa
images. The final 2.5 release would be several weeks later while
people work out how to do the transitional fl:2-2.5 label.

jesse

[0] 
http://community.apache.org/newbiefaq.html#NewbieFAQ-IsthereaCodeofConductforApacheprojects?
[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/03/11/lessons-learned/
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