But you have logs from irc discussions just as you have your emails - all developer channels are publicly logged
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, with the exception of asking for technical help, I don't really like > IRC for developer discussion, and it's not just because I don't go on IRC. > What if you're not online at the time of the discussion? You're completely > left out; no, even worse, you have no idea the discussion even took place. > This really sucks for important discussions. Whereas on the mailing list, > it's always in your inbox, not to mention various mailing list archivers > will preserve the discussion forever. > > tl;dr - If this person isn't even a part of the mailing list, I doubt > there's much more IRC can do to help him. > > *--* > *Tyler Romeo* > Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 > Major in Computer Science > www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2013-02-27 8:30 AM, "Petr Bena" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > as Gry in #wikipedia recently mentioned, there is no IRC channel for >> > general wikimedia developer purposes - project wide and language wide. >> > >> > There are subchannels for certain projects, but no general channel for >> > wikimedia devs of all kinds from all projects. >> > >> > I suppose we could use #wikimedia-dev as a general channel for all >> > developers no matter of project or programming language. What do you >> > think? >> > >> > Bellow is a message written by Gry who doesn't want to be part of this >> > mailing list >> > >> > ------- from gry@irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia --------- >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Could we make an IRC channel dedicated to development of software for >> > wikimedia projects (bots, js tools like twinkle, irc bots, etc)? Some >> > people who work on some software for few wikimedia projects would >> > likely benefit if they had a place to discuss its implementation, >> > other than just ask #wikipedia (the largest channel of all). As the >> > questions may get more tricky at times, a smaller, more >> > development-minded channel could be a tad more effective at actually >> > helping (regardless of what project they're from, be that wikipedia or >> > wikibooks or something else). >> > >> > There currently is #wikimedia-dev which actually is a place for >> > #mediawiki devs to meet, but they're not too happy with two channels >> > either [1] and it could be possible to discuss a take over. Or >> > otherwise a new channel named, say, #wikimedia-devel. >> >> The people who arent happy with two channels are going to be happier with >> 3? >> >> What's #wikimedia-tech used for now a days? From what I gather it is used >> for general technical help on wikimedia projects, which sounds kind of in >> the same direction as what you are suggesting (disclaimer: I don't >> generally idle/join that channel, so dont really know) >> >> -bawolff >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
