+/- 0 to logging. I can argue both sides. On the one hand, I know I have seen things on #sage-devel that I think would be better off not being posted and indexed - in particular, a flamer and a naive-sage-support-poster being critiqued. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, mostly folks blowing off steam, but better I think to be "of the moment" than on the Internet Archive. I imagine logging will have some influence on the informality of the discussions (which I would miss).
But, as has been demonstrated the past couple of days, a lot of valuable information flows by. I often cut out tidbits to save for later - such as when Citro and Alexander were doing release management together. Others cut/paste from IRC onto tickets when the discussion is technical, serious and applicable. Is it not relatively easy for an individual to log by themselves locally? Maybe not an ideal compromise, but still a middle ground. But of course, that doesn't give the new developer any history. Maybe Harald is proposing a formal logged channel and an informal non-logged channel, which would be another middle ground. Disclaimer: 100% of my IRC experience is on #sage-devel Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
