The community learns about each other in a shared, non-exclusionary method. Private Email/IM/IRC does NOT foster that.
Public IRC, free for anyone to join, at a channel that is 'officially' published/ promoted however, does. Like I stated earlier, I actually believe that since we started supporting the logged IRC channel - which usually has about half of the active committers and about 15 - 30 users online at any given time - that our list traffic got more focussed and thus more valuable for following/ accessing the archives. I'm not arguing email should not be the preferred method of communicating, just that IRC is a valuable additional communication channel which imho is very suitable to open development. Eelco --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
