> IRC is not an optimal medium for development discussion, IMHO. It is > not archived properly, unstructured and hard to search. Ideally, > development discussion and decisions should be documented in the docs > or the ticket system, but a mailing list is the next best thing.
You are so right about this. For starters, I'm not even *allowed* to go to IRC at work. So from the about potentially 16-18h a day, I could only stay on IRC for about half of them. But then there is the issue of timezones, the fact that permanently following a chat in the hope of something interesting or relevant happening is massively distracting (to me at least), the interleaved discussions of others... I don't mind the occasional IRC conference. But even that I can't guarantee to attend. Real Live and such. And where are the results of those discussions you guys have? Can I read them? Can I comment on them? Can I *work* on them? No. So I'm feeling I'm cut out of the development efforts. The public visibility of those is reduced, as no one can follow discussions and decisions by searching through ML or TRAC. Which might give the impression to others that the project isn't very much alive. For me this resulted in not doing anything anymore, except fixing maybe concrete bugs I encounter when working with TG2. The whole HG vs. Mercurial issue I also don't see as benefitial - but I can cope with it. Diez --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
