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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> On 19:06 Wed 11 Mar , Thilo Bangert wrote: |
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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 |
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>>>> could realize more of its potential by better integrating people |
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>>>> who dont do IRC. |
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> I think IRC helps to build a more tightly knit community and, because of |
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> this, is very important to Gentoo. The less close we are as a community, |
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> the more free we feel to be hostile because we don't see the folks on |
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> the other end of the big tube as real people. It's much like a technique |
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> that militaries use during wars to de-personalize the enemy, except with |
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> the Internet, we start that way and have to apply effort to grow closer. |
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While it may be tight nit, there's the danger that it's so tight no one |
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else can get in, so to speak. |
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I don't think anyone's saying anything like "no more IRC". What I at |
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least am advocating is that what goes on on IRC gets summarized |
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somewhere in addition. As I said before, this not only helps keep a |
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"log" of what goes on for "future generations", but also allows others |
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(users and devs who don't have time to follow everything) to look in and |
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follow what the devs are doing more easily. |
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I think that this would ultimately help make Gentoo development more |
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visible and more accessible, ultimately leading to an increased |
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conversion of users to contributors, if not users to devs. |
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AllenJB |