As I said, occasional irc chats, or very *directed and focused* IRC chats are fine... it's the standing ones which are a concern. For example, someone my decide not to bring something up on dev@ because "well, I'll just bring it up at the irc meeting" and so the irc meetings would evolve into the place where development gets done and d...@is where development gets "recorded"...
That's the danger and that is why the ASF has always directed that mailing lists be and stay the main development communication method. On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: > On 11/18/2010 04:19 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> As per the discussion today, the dev meetings will be held on Tuesdays, at >> 9.30am PST. Meeting agendas will be set the Monday before (noon). >> >> The next such IRC meeting will be held on Tuesday 11/30. Please email me >> suggestions for topics to discuss before Monday 11/29 noon (PST). I hope >> this works for everyone. > > > With the -1 that has come up, I'm cancelling these meeting. Please use email > as the primary method of all communications. > > -- leif >
