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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote: |
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> These are all good reasons to not use Hangouts. Fortunately, there was |
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> nothing in the proposal to suggest that it will be required for anyone, or |
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> that it will replace any existing source of information. Therefore anyone |
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> who chooses not to make use of Hangouts will not otherwise be affected by |
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> them. |
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Right now the only "required" forums for communication for developers |
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are the -core and -dev-announce mailing lists, as far as I'm aware. |
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Not even IRC is a required communication medium, though obviously that |
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is where most meetings are held. |
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My main beef with IRC is that meetings tend to drag on, which is fine |
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if you're multi-tasking, but not so fine if you have someplace to be |
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and you'd rather get it done with sooner so that you can get on the |
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road or whatever (where multitasking isn't exactly safe). I think |
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that moving more communication to asynchronous channels might be a |
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better solution than either Hangouts or IRC, and then using |
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synchronous channels for things that actually benefit from it (team |
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building, matters that need some interaction, etc). |
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Rich |
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