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On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 00:07 -0800, Anthony Gorecki wrote: |
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> I believe you missed the point of my message (intentionally); if the forums |
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> and development mailing lists are open to non-developers and are suitably |
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> moderated for inappropriate posts, it doesn't seem entirely sensible (or |
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> logical) to me that the development chat room is publically muted. |
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Have you ever been in #gentoo? |
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I'm not sure how you would expect us to hold any form of relevant |
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conversations about development issues in #gentoo-dev if it were opened |
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up to public access. All it would do is get half the devs that do hang |
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out in there to hide away in some secret channel that is moderated so |
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discussion could take place without the 10,000,000 help-related |
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questions that would be inevitably posted about CFLAGS and other such |
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things. |
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Allow me to take #gentoo-releng as an example. During non-release |
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times, the channel is not moderated and anyone can participate in the |
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discussions. As release time grows near, we make the channel moderated |
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so that only members of releng may speak in there. This really helps |
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when we are in a high stress situation such as a release. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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