On Nov 19, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Nick Kew wrote: > > On 19 Nov 2010, at 13:24, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Hmmm... use of IRC as a development process is not recommended. >> Even if logged and posted, it still, by its very nature, excludes >> people due to timezone differences and the like. Occasional >> uses of IRC (and other more "real-time" events like f2f and >> hackathons) are OK but rare. >> >> Having an "official" one is not how ASF projects should be run. >> >> I vote a very strong -1 > > Someone should tell that to the ASF membership, who use IRC as the > medium for the twice-yearly general meetings! >
Twice yearly for a member's meeting is a compromise. Comparing that to weekly development meetings is apples and oranges. > IRC is a *great* medium to meet up. Sure, timezones and peoples > commitments can be an issue, but they needn't be a showstopper. By definition, they are. Again, occasional use of irc is fine, but official weekly irc meetings where lots of dev work is done is a slipper slope that has problems. This is Apache 101 > It's certainly a lot more accessible and inclusive than face-to-face > events involving travel! > > It seems this meeting has already taken the trouble to seek a time > convenient to everyone interested, so where's the problem? > If that were to prove impossible, that's a bridge to cross when we > come to it, whether through a compromise like variable times, > or through abandoning the idea altogether. But let's not dismiss > a medium just because of what *might* happen! > > -- > Nick Kew >
