IRC has been a useful tool for timely community brainstorming to handle
issues that need quick attention.

We have started to summarize the chat content on the mailing list in
messages that include the IRC chat. That is very useful.

It would be good to decide on chat subject before the chat session starts
and publish it on mailing list.
This gives a chance to people in different time zones to decide on whether
they need to attend the chat or not.



On 7/5/06, Simon Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I think a weekly one-hour scheduled IRC chat is a good idea, even
though my personal record of attendance isn't too good :-(  I have
scheduled these into my calendar now, whoch should help.  The few
chats I have been on have been useful, though perhaps closer to
decision-making affairs than would ideally follow the Apache model.
(Sample: what are we going to do about these JIRAs?)  However, it
was useful to reach quick decisions on these and the chat seemed to
be a reasonable way to do this.  The current time is OK for me.

  Simon

ant elder wrote:

> AFAICT no one has suggested a ban on IRC, what I'm trying to find out is
if
> we should be continuing with the regularly scheduled weekly chat. If
enough
> people don't think we should be having it then we should stop. Thats a
> perfectly fine thing to happen if thats what the community want, but its
> not
> going to get stopped unless those who don't think we should be having it
> speak up clearly. That's what this thread is about - " Are people happy
> with
> having our current weekly hour long IRC chat?"
>
>    ...ant
>

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