Frank Fischer <[email protected]> writes: > Am Sat, 26 May 2012 11:13:54 -0700 > schrieb Keshav Kini <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> If I (or someone) made an IRC channel on freenode for evil-mode, would >> users/developers be interested in hanging out there to field questions >> or have realtime dev discussion? I feel that it might be more >> accessible to users than the mailing list, but for evil-mode's >> audience that might not be true, I guess. > > In principle I'm not against this although I'm a little bit skeptical. > The IRC would require being online a lot (or needs a relatively large > user base so that at each time at least someone is online, but evil is > (still) a small project). That's the advantage of a mailing list, it's > more offline and "round based" instead of real-time (which has its own > advantages, of course). And nobody expects an immediate answer. > Furthermore (I can't speak of others, of course) my own online time is > relatively limited so my "hanging around" would probably be quite > infrequent (in fact, I've not used IRC for a long time now). > > On the other hand, it may help (new) users if enough active users > participate. It does not cost anything, so why not give it try?
Yup, those are more or less my thoughts. It makes most sense if there are a lot of users. But on the other hand one has to start somewhere... well, anyway, I am camping in #evil-mode on irc.freenode.net now. Anyone is welcome to come there :) -Keshav _______________________________________________ implementations-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list
