On 7/11/06, Coach Wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Given the controversy about IRC meetings at
[email protected], I'd recommend we do not do IRC meetings at
all.
The original IRC idea was to have a regular (twice a month or once a
month) Q&A for getting people to up to speed and introducing some "live"
interaction to help build a community. However, Some people are
concerned that we will either intentionally or unintentionally make
technical decisions during IRC. Some people are concerned that XAP IRC
meeting is an extension of existing corporate development practice. None
of the above is true nor are they being intended for. However, given the
amount of controversy different people feel about IRC, it seems best
that XAP developers do not do IRC meeting at all.
Any strong feeling from XAP community?
I disagree. Sorry to repeat myself in the same thread, but I think:
A regular IRC session as an open Q&A or focused tutorial on some
aspect of the current code base doesn't seem like a bad idea to me;
If there are XAP committers who want to make themselves available to
explain parts of the code base or have a Q&A by IRC, I think they
should do it. The thing I think people were concerned about was
having a discussion among the committers about design ideas/directions
(similar to what I believe Synapse does) -- that's where there was
concern that decisions may implicitly get made. I don't think anyone
is worried that project decisions are going to get made from a
tutorial on the code. I suppose a user could have a really good
question that sparks an idea, but.... ;-)
I do appreciate that you were willing to drop your own idea based on
the feedback of other Apache folks, but I don't want you to have to
drop a helpful idea that is not really what the concern was aimed at.
The harder part is probably getting users/potential contributors to
show up.
Cliff
