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Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 14:15:36 Thilo Bangert wrote: |
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>>> Bugs aren't a good way to keep in touch with developers, that's what |
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>>> irc is for. |
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>> while i dont necessarily think, that bugzi is the best way to stay in |
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>> contact with me, it surely is a better way than IRC - on which i am close |
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>> to never. |
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>> the presumption seems to be, that as a dev one has to be available via |
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>> IRC. it has long been my feeling that Gentoo as a project could realize |
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>> more of its potential by better integrating people who dont do IRC. |
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>> kind regards |
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>> Thilo |
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> To be honest , I don't agree with that. Being around on irc is quite helpful |
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> to get direct feedback from users and fix bugs before they hit more users. |
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> This is a good way to reduce the amount of bugs that hit bugzilla. |
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While IRC is undoubtedly a useful communication medium, it is pretty |
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much a "here and now" thing. I believe that Gentoo would benefit quite a |
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lot if teams started using more permanent forms of communication such as |
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blogs, wikis or websites. Not only would this allow the current set of |
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developers within a team to know what one another are up to and what |
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needs to be done, but it would also allow those who are not so |
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intimately involved (both other devs, contributors and users) to keep up |
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to date and contribute as well as leaving something for future |
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developers to be able to look back on and see what options / |
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improvements / etc were considered / done in the past. |
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I recently wrote a blog post that went somewhat along these lines: |
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http://allenjb.me.uk/blog/why-only-think-about-projects-for-gsoc |
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As someone who's very interested in getting involved in Gentoo |
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Development, I often find it hard to gather information on what projects |
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/ people are up to, what's currently going on and what the plans for the |
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future are. |
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AllenJB |