[ Replied publically with Alfred's permission. ] On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 09:35:17AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > If you are familiar with IRC then you can pop by irc.gnu.org, ##hurd.
I've never used IRC before, but installed the Emacs IRC Client ERC <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsIRCClient>. One disadvantage I see in using IRC (apart from the higher telephone bill I'll be getting -- I'm using dial-up access) is that good things will be discussed, new methods will be developed, problems will be solved, etc. and a lot of the evolved results will be forgotten after a few weeks or will have to be repeated again and again -- at least I was not able to quickly find an archive of logged IRC sessions using google, which I'm used to consult when having a question. Was I just too stupid to find such archives or do they really not exist? I suppose it would be rather trivial to have interesting channels logged on a few machines, have the logs compared and merged, so that nothing is missed and have the whole story published somewhere. Is someone doing or able to do that? On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:21:34AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Alfred, is it ok for you if I _publically_ answer to your two > private messages? (Attached.) > > I have no problems with that, other then flooding the mailing list > with mails back and forth All the other open source projects I've contributed to, succesfully use mailing lists as their primary (and often only) communication-technique. > when one could solve the problem and then > post one message describing the solution. Is that regularely done? I've just digged through my archives of the Hurd's mailing lists and found some snippets about "[...] was discussed on IRC", but only very few ones that were explicit about that discussions's results. If your (the Hurd developers's) working-style is using IRC then I'll try to get used to that. :-) Regards, Thomas P.S. On a tangent: it would be really nice if downloadable archives of the Hurd-related mailing lists were available on <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/>, <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-hurd/>, <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/web-hurd/>, <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/>, <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/>, <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/hurd-devel/> and <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/>. For the latter they are advertised to be available, but they are not. I reported that to <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2004-08-09, got my request acknowledged, again asked about it at the end of October, got no answer and nothing has happened since then. I've re-report that issue right now. Again, being on dial-up it's no fun digging through web archives. :-| Maybe someone with greater authority then me could have a look at that? :-) _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
