Kai Blin wrote:
* "Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [23/04/06,
13:00:51]:
See directly below.. People see all of these choices on where to go to
get help, but dont like any of them (dont want to be flooded with
emails, dont want to search the archives, or it isnt in the archives,
dont know how to use bugzilla and dont want to learn, dont like the
appdb, etc, etc, etc), so they go to somewhere else. The wiki isnt
really designed for posting questions to, so they dont use that either..
And that make maintance easier how?
Because we only have 1 place to update, the wiki (as it is now) and then
the rest should just link to there, including sticky topics in the
forum, which will most likely be the most read thing on there.. If it
doesnt make maintenance easier it at least cuts down on the duplicate
questions posted all over wine-devel, wine-users, third party forums,
irc, newsgroups, bugzilla and the appdb..... That is what i really
meant by makes maintenance easier... But it wasn't the proper wordiong
obviously.
* How would getting our own IRC server fix the "having to switch
networks back and forth" problem? As opposed to freenode, where I can
hang out in #wine-devel, #winehq, #samba-technical and so on, I now
need to switch networks if I want to go from #wine-devel to
#samba-technical.
It doesnt prevent that, it just makes it easier to control how fast the
server comes back up in the event it goes down for whatever reason..
If I read http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml correctly, they seem to
have 16 servers up and running. I never had any major problems
connecting. As opposed to us having a single point of failure. Besides,
freenode is where I'd look for most free project's IRC channels
Fine whatever.. Personally I dont like having to keep an irc client
open, but i would be more inclined to do so if we had our own server...
Then we could do java irc from one of the website's servers, making
another point of contact (and also making live help more readily
accessible to those unfamiliar with irc)...
