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Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> said: |
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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 |
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> > > what 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 |
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> > close to never. |
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> > the presumption seems to be, that as a dev one has to be available |
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> > via IRC. it has long been my feeling that Gentoo as a project could |
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> > realize more of its potential by better integrating people who dont |
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> > do IRC. |
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> > |
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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 |
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> helpful to get direct feedback from users and fix bugs before they hit |
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> more users. This is a good way to reduce the amount of bugs that hit |
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> bugzilla. |
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my complaint isn't about people using IRC. i object to the way that much |
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of our knowledge, discussion and decision making process appear to have |
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been moved into the temporal black hole that is IRC. |
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realtime communication is an valuable tool, but IRC has drawbacks as well. |
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this is alienating a lot of people who dont happen to be on IRC at the |
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right moment/timezone or who dont have the time to be always on. |
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it looks like many projects within Gentoo have resorted to a communication |
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process which uses IRC exclusivly. this is unfortunate... |
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kind regards |
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Thilo |
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