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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 23:02, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:05:21 +0900 |
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> Chris White <chriswhite@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > >>might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for |
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> > > >>voice to speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' |
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> > > >>smokescreen ? |
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> > My intentions in this email were regarding the above worries about |
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> > things. I plan to create somewhat of a consistant contact point |
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> > between irc users that want a voice in dev. If anyone has |
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> > disagreements, I'll be happy to hear them out and hopefully address |
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> > them. My plan of interaction is as follows: |
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> [snip] |
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> Won't work. First it would introduce a single point of failure. If we'd |
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> really follow this route there has to be a role for this, not a user. |
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> Then how are people supposed to know about this in teh first place? I |
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> wouldn't expect that users with a question/topic for -dev have read the |
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> dev handbook. Often that is spontaneous, which brings me to my next |
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> point: email definitely won't work for this, I mean if someone writes |
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> an email they can just as well ask their question on the gentoo-dev |
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> list directly. |
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> And finally: I really don't like the idea of telling people "ask Chris |
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> for voice, other devs might not behave nice", if there really is a |
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> problem this will just sidestep it, not solve it. |
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Why not create a "voicebot" that would sit in the irc channel (the subject |
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would refer to it), that developers could send a message to, and that |
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would automatically be forwarded to a team of developers. If the bot |
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would forward the communication to all members and the requestor double |
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action is avoided, and users know where to go to get voice. The voicebot |
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automatically maintains the list of active voice team members. It could |
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even be made to block users that should not be allowed to bother the team |
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(for example because they seriously misbehave themselves). |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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