On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 4:15 PM Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 09:24:58PM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’m personally not an IRC user but I try to keep an eye on the IRC logs. > > For personal reasons I haven’t had time to do since the start of the year > > but I spent some time tonight to browse the archives. > > > > Since January there were somewhere between 5 and 10 persons asking > > questions and NO ONE got a timely reply. On the other hand we have had a > > slow but steady stream of questions on users@ and they have received > > replies from different members of the community. > > > > I think the lack of replies on IRC reflects badly on the community. I’m > not > > able to put any energy into following the IRC channels and I cannot ask > > anyone else either. But I think the mailing lists could absorb these > > questions and give timely answers. > > > > For this reason, I suggest that we discontinue the IRC channels (remove > > them from libera.chat) or at least change the topic to indicate that they > > are no longer “official” and to refer all questions to the mailing lists. > > The website should of course be updated accordingly. > > > > Kind regards > > > > Daniel Sahlberg > > I am not sure whether outright removing (aka "dropping") our Libera > channels from ChanServ is a good idea. Anyone could re-register a > dropped channel and squat on the name and/or impersonate the project. > > Given this, I suppose the #svn users channel should be marked as > unmaintained in the topic. Redirecting questions to the mailing > list via the topic line should work well enough. > > The #svn-dev channel might still be useful for quick communication > during bursts of increased project activity. I would keep it around. > > Cheers, > Stefan I'd like to keep the IRC channels, at the very least so that someone won't squat on the name as already mentioned, but I agree that we should update the channel topics to direct user questions to the mailing list where they are much more likely to receive a timely response. I'd also recommend to update our text on the website to say that the IRC channels exist but the mailing lists are the more recommended way to communicate. Cheers, Nathan
