On 9/17/2010 9:41 AM, Urs Lerch wrote: > To cut a long story short: ALOIS is _not_ about a chat channel, it's a > tool for security incident and event management. Since the chat channell > in the required resources list was only a wish, I gladly dropped it off > the proposal.
Hi Urs, While I certainly don't think a chat channel needs to be on the proposal (for one thing, Apache projects tend to just use freenode's IRC network), I'd like to strongly reiterate Bertrand's points. Off-list conversation is going to happen any time you have multiple devs working at the same company, living in the same town, or attending the same ApacheCon. Real-time chats are often the source of very valuable insights, and having an online "hang-out" spot for a project has in the past been hugely worthwhile to the projects I've been involved with, both for devs and users. As long as no serious decisions are made without consulting the list, and someone posts summaries of all conversations that significantly affect the project, real-time channels are fine. The point is that someone looking back at the project from five years down the road should be able to really see what happened by looking at the archives -- not that real-time is a Bad Thing. Thanks, --Glen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
