Ah, gotcha - I was thinking from the user perspective. I agree it could have value as a developer tool if others would use it, sure.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Kalle Korhonen <[email protected] > wrote: > Ok. Typically the developers of a project, not the users, find it more > useful to have an IRC channel. There are often design discussions and > implementation questions where a simple yes/no answer won't suffice > and when real-time communication is a faster and more effective media > to make progress than back and forth posts on a mailing list. Getting > the irc discussion archived is a technical problem that is already > solved many a times, for example with http://www.jibble.org/logbot/. > Obviously if the core developers don't see a need for IRC channel it's > not likely it would be used by anybody else either - that's ok, > different working models suit for different projects. > > Kalle > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Les Hazlewood<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Kalle, > > > > We've never used IRC for the project before, so I don't believe it > exists. > > > > But even if this existed, I don't know that I (personally) would be too > > enthusiastic about using such a thing. I'm fairly certain that IRC ports > > are not enabled at my work network for one so I couldn't be of much help, > > but more important, any asked-and-answered questions in an IRC chat room > > wouldn't be searchable on the 'net - unless there is some service that > > performs archival for IRC somewhere. > > > > So any knowledged dissemminated or gained would be lost to anyone not in > the > > chat room. I personally prefer to use archived mailing lists because > when > > people have a problem, they can use Google and come across previous > > discussions that could help them, saving everyone time by not having to > > answer the same questions over again. > > > > That's just my personal preference for my own usage - I have no opinion > as > > to whether or not the community sets one up. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Les > > > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Kalle Korhonen < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> It's very typical for open source projects to have a regular IRC > >> channel - does one exist for Shiro? Couldn't not find anything from > >> mailing archives or googling either for jsecurity, ki or Shiro. > >> > >> Kalle > > > > >
