Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/14/2010 4:10 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: > >> Sure, and if it was work time, we probably would do this ;). As it is >> right now, this is volunteer time, and I would say that we're entitled >> to do whatever helps us getting done the (not always exciting) work, >> and our IRC crap talk, if that's what it is, happens to be among that. > > Aha! IRC ('chat') is like a social hour or cocktail party, with multiple > simultaneous conversations. Some people must like such events and even > find relaxing. I tend to find them uncomfortable and a bit of a chore to > mentally process, at least until I can get deep enough into a > conversation with 1 or 2 people to tune everyone else out. So, while a > bit of business *might* get conducted, that is not the primary purpose. > > So I can see that pushing to make it a business meeting would not be too > welcome. What I would like is an online sprint with a temporary > #python-triage channel, with at least one commit-developer present. > > Pending that, is there any time of day when more people with commit > privileges are likely to be present. > > The other problem I have is being dropped or timed out, and not > having/knowing a way to get auto-reconnected to the channel. Thus, I > could miss a response even if I do get one. > Speak to the twisted guys. It's about a line-and-a-half of code to run a logger on an IRC channel.
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