On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 21:32 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Scott Deboy <scott.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ...I'm interested in what others think of their proposal for supporting > > real-time communication, and curious what others are doing, if anything, to > > support the growing interest in real-time communication between project > > participants.... > > IMO the key point is "if it didn't happen on the dev list it didn't happen". > > Coffee machine conversations, private emails and chat, phone calls and > IRC all happen. > > What's important is that for any type of out-of-band discussion to be > summarized on the dev list as soon as they have impact on the project, > code or community [1]. And all decisions must happen on the dev list. > > Sending daily IRC logs to the dev list is fine, but if decisions > happen on IRC that's wrong - the dev list has to be the central > channel where all the important information is found, and all > decisions happen.
Sending IRC logs to the dev list is okay, as a reference, but please don't expect folks to actually read them as they come in. Reading IRC logs is incredibly tedious for people who are not a part of the conversation as it is happening. Therefore, posting IRC logs to a dev list is not, IMO, sufficient as a means of informing the dev list of what was discussed there. It needs summarising separately - that is, assuming anything relevant to the dev list was actually discussed. Upayavira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
