On Friday 2015-01-23 14:14 -0800, L. David Baron wrote:
> On Friday 2015-01-23 12:43 -0800, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> > What does everyone think about logging irc channels
> 
> I support logging public channels.  I think it will make
> participation easier and help communication, both across time zones
> and for those new to the project (who can learn what was said on IRC
> a year before).

I should perhaps explain a little bit more why I think this:

On the Platform team, we're making decisions every day that affect
how the Web works.  The Web is a technology system that is used by a
significant portion of the world's population.

Many of these decisions are irrevocable, because the Web depends on
compatibility.

I think we owe it to the people (present and future) who use the
technology we're building to record and publish at least what is
easy to record, publish, and archive without much cost to us, so
that they can understand why we made the decisions we made.

I think if we can do this without adding overhead and unreliability
(e.g., "if it's important, copy and paste it into a bug"), we
should.

I realize this rationale doesn't necessarily apply to all of
Mozilla, but I'd at least like to see archived logs for all the
major public channels related to the technology that we put in the
Web platform.

-David

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𝄞   L. David Baron                         http://dbaron.org/   𝄂
𝄢   Mozilla                          https://www.mozilla.org/   𝄂
             Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
             What I was walling in or walling out,
             And to whom I was like to give offense.
               - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)

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