Hi Mark... I agree with Kevan, and I u self faced some problems contacting with people on IRC in the OpenEJB project, mainly because different time zones and above all the dev-mailling list plays a very important role specially for new comers to the project as the mailing list is archived and can be searched for specific topics. So IRC is mainly used as a way for more live discussion and most of time they set a meeting time on IRC so everyone has the chance to join the meeting. And even for the example you explained, if you have some idea or you are not so sure whether you understand something or not. before you do it explain what you are going to do on the mailing list and wait for replies and ideas and if you waited too long - days for example - you can re-post the subject again, but you have to notice something that if you didn't get a reply soon enough this does not mean that people don't care, but maybe they didn't see the mail yet :-). I em telling you this cause I've been through this before :-). I hope I could help :-).
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Kevan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Mark Struberg wrote: > >> Txs Kevan. >> >> My problem is that I'm not that deep into the code basis as you all, so >> not all things that appears odd to me are really bugs. And IRC is a nice >> solution if one needs a quick answer if he is completely lost - as I am most >> times ;) > > Heh. > >> >> My aim is to first check if the direction is correct, then do some mailing >> on the list +debugging and hacking and finally write a nice new Jiraffe. >> >> For example: yesterday I was trying to improve the XMLFieldTest and I >> simply wasn't sure if I did use the Manager the wrong way or if the factory >> doesn't work. Gurkan helped me a lot by pointing the right direction in IRC >> last night. > > Glad you got your answer and that sounds fine to me. I'm not arguing against > IRC. I'm simply pointing out things to watch out for from a community > perspective... I'll join the IRC channel and try to keep an eye on things. > I'll shout if I start to see anything troubling... > > --kevan > -- ---- Thanks - Mohammad Nour - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
