Randy McMurchy wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 07/23/05 19:38 CST: > >>I think the development happens on IRC coz I have not seen any major >>discussion on the lists. > > > If this is true, then it sucks. As has been requested by many users > of the mail lists, development should happen here, not on IRC.
I conditionally disagree with the above...please see below. > In fact, > it seems I remember an edict being put out that said to the effect of: > > Discussion on IRC is good, however, anything that affects the book in > a non-trivial way should be discussed on the -dev list. > Discussion on IRC is very very good IMO, people are working together in real time. If major decisions are made during an IRC session, then please post a summary back to the dev-list so that those decisions, and more importantly, the reasons for those decisions can be archived. An edited chat log file serves very well for this purpose. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
