On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:34:17 Thomas Tuttle wrote: > > Personally, I prefer quicker mechanisms to slower ones, but some people > dislike real-time communications because they can interrupt their work > constantly. I think what's important is not the signal-to-noise ratio, > per se, but the relevant-to-irrelevant ratio. To me, it makes no > difference whether the traffic that I don't care about is spam/trolls or > just discussion of another project. So I'd support -dev being for > coordination of core development and -project being for other things, so > that people can read all of -dev easily and simply pay attention to only > what they want to see on -project. But I see no reason to moderate > either -- #-dev is moderated because IRC is an easy medium to disrupt. > It's a lot harder to wander on to a mailing list and start trolling, and > it's easier to block.
Many people also have very little time to invest into gentoo. For those it is not possible to be on IRC often, while for e-mail you can indeed save up things until the end of the day and reply when it is convenient to you. As such a -dev mailing list is much more useful than a #-dev IRC channel. Ignoring the list is ignoring many developers who want to do work instead of monitoring IRC. Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
