I look to IRC for answers to simple questions, and I keep an eye on it to answer other peoples' simple questions.
The Weka mailing list seems to have some of the same questions asked every week, and they have no official IRC channel. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > IRC is also used heavily in the hbase community and people do use it there > for install questions pretty commonly. > > Whether this works is critically dependent on having guys like Mike Stack > who are able to keep an eye on IRC and answer the questions. My own > preference is to use the mailing list for these support purposes because we > have such broad timezone distribution. > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On the user side, there is a huge benefit for discussions to be on the > > mailing list here as I think most people's workflow, plus Google, etc. > make > > it easy to lookup past answers. That being said, most users in Lucene > land > > don't use the IRC channels for questions. It's more a dev hangout. > > >
