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

[Fernando Frediani]

Fully agree.

Fernando

On 17 May 2016 at 06:02, Bruno Randolf <br1 at einfach.org> wrote:
> On 17/05/16 09:46, andrew wrote:
>> How about something like rocket.chat or one of the opensource self
>> hosted alternatives?
>
> Don't get me wrong, the problem is not IRC itself, there are definetly
> good uses for it. I'm NOT saying people should not use IRC to
> coordinate. My point is: hanging out (async or not) in IRC should not be
> required for people to be part of this project as that would again
> increase the barrier to participating, instead of lowering it. That just
> simply means important issues and decisions should be carried out on the
> mailing list, not in IRC.
>
> bruno
>
>
>
>> On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 17:29 -0400, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
>>> On 16-05-16 05:18 PM, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The objective is so that you don't have isolated pools of TZ's
>>>> where one
>>>> TZ has little insight into what the other TZ is doing and has no
>>>> *good*
>>>> mechanisms for communicating across timezones.
>>>>
>>>> Reading IRC chat logs is an exercise is pain for many, so that's
>>>> not
>>>> really the answer for cross-timezone communication.
>>>>
>>>> IRC, for many of us, is something that is only useful when it's
>>>> realtime.
>>>>
>>> It is also difficult to follow *threads* of conversation that are
>>> severely time-delayed.
>>>
>>> In addition, in order to not miss messages you really need to set up
>>> a
>>> bouncer that is always on and keeps a unread messages even across an
>>> unexpected reboot or logging out of your console/gui session.
>>>
>>> Email is far superior for time-delayed threads of communication.  If
>>> you're having problems with managing your email, it's your email
>>> strategy that needs to change, not the use of email.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dan iel
>>>
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