IRC is great for support, brainstorming and refining ideas with people currently online. If you are offline - tough luck. It can be logged, sure, but if you want to pick up a topic later there is no easy way to provide context for your questions. A mailing list is much better for that as it allows people in different timezones and with different work habits to participate effectively.
#zfdev will be a great start, but I think a dev mailing list is important in the short run as well. Christoph Wil Sinclair wrote: > I think it would be up to the users to make sure nothing important is said on > the IRC channel alone- especially if it's significant to the wider community. > > ,Wil > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: till [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 1:34 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: Wil Sinclair; Laurent Melmoux; Pádraic Brady; Zend Framework >> General >> Subject: Re: [fw-general] Why haven't you reviewed the Zend_Tool >> proposals? >> >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Christoph Dorn >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am all for an IRC channel although I am not always online which may >>> make it less beneficial than a "dev" mailing list for me. >> There are a couple services that log irc channels and provide a >> searchable frontend. I don't remember the names as of now, but there >> are some. IMHO, that would provide extra value. >> >> I don't really care IRC vs. mailinglist. Email is just easier since I >> use it anyway on a day to day basis, IRC is more a thing, I have to >> log myself in and read backlog/current discussions to follow. >> >> Till >
