Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: > Perhaps we also need to make it more clear where users can ask such > Gentoo-specific questions about specific packages, so they don't need to > go and annoy upstream. Associate an irc-channel with each package. Most > packages have a herd associated with them which can belong to a project > which could have an irc-channel where the relevant developers could be > found and which can put common problems in its topic. Fallback for when no > appropriate irc-channel can be found would be #gentoo. Currently it is > usually difficult to find such irc-channels or to know if there is none > and that your only option is #gentoo or #$upstream. It would also make it > easier for users to start helping developers and eventually become > developers themselves, since they won't need to search for a point of > entry anymore. > I think it's a great idea to have an irc-channel associated with each herd/ package. Certainly it took me a while to find #gentoo-desktop which is busier than #gentoo-kde.
The fallback should be #gentoo-dev-help however, wrt to questions about changing ebuilds, imo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
