I have to agree, I'm an IRC hater, but #netdisco was started on freenode recently by one of the developers. I think 3x more activity has been registered in the project since then. Imagine that we'ld never communicated except in E-mAil before that point! I attest the first release in 2 years to the fact that we all started talking on IRC. As is, I only login 2-3 times a week... it's very asynchronous, but somehow more effective than e-mail.
So even if you never reply, just sitting there in 'screen' is enough to encourage people that they're in an official forum for the project. Besides, then you can have email, voice mail, cell phone, instant messaging (3-4 network) and finally IRC to distract you :-) -m On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:32:30PM -0000, Gareth Kirwan wrote: > >> I'd like to imagine it's just co-incident and that my beloved mason > >> isn't unpopular, but sometimes it feels very delusional. > >> > >> Either way, I'm hoping this might spur some permanent > >activity in the magnet > >> #mason. > > > >I wonder if this has to do with whether the project leaders > >like to hang > >out on IRC for a given project. FWIW, I definitely _don't_ > >like to hang > >out on IRC. I'm much too easily distracted by it, so the only > >channels I > >join regularly are on $DAYJOB's server. > > > >In the few times I've been on the #perl channels, I've never seen Jon > >Swartz either. > > To some extent I think that's true - It makes the members feel less > impotent. > Activity is very important. > I'm normally in #London.pm and recently #catalyst. > It's sometimes a nice distraction, and a quick way to get peer review > (or have 20 people shout at you). > > Most importantly I think it encourages potential members of a project > community. > Being able to have rapid discussion about sometime makes understanding come > quicker. > > Certainly I don't think I'd be so taken with catalyst if I hadn't got the > support I did. > However, like you say, it's not for everyone. > > I'd like for those who do want it, or more importantly need it, to have it > available and active. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
