[LEDE-DEV] A request not making IRC necessary to be part of the action

[Dave Taht]

znc and bitlbee are godsends when using irc asynchronously.

In particular I feed all irc convos into bitlbee and then into erc on
emacs (so I am not hurt when my connection goes away).



On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:00 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 12:46 +0100, Bruno Randolf wrote:
>> On 15/05/16 05:53, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>> >
>> > I'd really appreciate if we could actually use the mailing list for the
>> > main communications venue rather than shutting out people not in the
>> > European timezones, which is what happens if IRC is the main way to
>> > participate in the community.
>> >
>> > I have been told that to really be part of the OpenWrt action I should
>> > have been on IRC; but I'm not in European timezone so that is not
>> > actually a useful suggestion, since most of the most people most
>> > relevant to decision-making are in Europe, and I would hope LEDE has a
>> > more *inter-continental focus than OpenWrt had.
>> Agreed! I don't have time to hang out in IRC channels, usually. Or maybe
>> a different working style... (it distracts me too much). Anyhow I think
>> all important things and all things which don't need real-time
>> interaction should go thru the mailing list, please.
>
> FWIW, IRC doesn't have to have real-time behaviour, and doesn't have to
> be constantly distracting.
>
> It's perfectly possible to have IRC conversations with people who are
> never awake at the same time as you. You say something, they respond
> when they wake up... and you respond when *you* wake up. Just like
> email, in fact.
>
> IRC gives you the *option* of real-time conversation, if you happen to
> be awake at the same time.
>
> And you don't have to pay attention to the channel all the time; an IRC
> client should highlight if your nick is mentioned because someone is
> talking you to specifically.
>
> IRC is great for conversations which are more ephemeral, and don't need
> to be archived for posterity.
>
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> dwmw2
>
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