On Jul 11, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Cliff Schmidt wrote:

"IRC can be used by a podling to bring new people up to speed (e.g.
Q&A between available committers and interested users/contributors),
although such sessions should be archived and made available to those
not able to attend.  However, using IRC as a means to conduct
development/architecture discussions is discouraged.  Even with the
best intentions, experience has shown that it is difficult to maintain
such discussions without implicit decisions being made in the
process."

Just to call a spade a spade...

Perhaps things like members' and board meetings should also avoid IRC if a blanket statement that making decisions, even implicit ones, in IRC is bad?

-Brian

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