[Mageia-dev] So?

Wed Sep 29 15:39:43 CEST 2010

Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 15:25 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 2010/9/29 Gustavo Giampaoli <giampaoli.gustavo at gmail.com>:
+> >
+> > IMHO that wiki is to "slow". IRC is too "real time". MLs are the right
+> > mix between both. With MLs you have enough time to think and write
+> > your idea very clear. And is fast enough to have lot of answers in a
+> > few minutes.
+> 
+> May I emphasize your point about IRC:
+> IRC has one major drawback. All information, ideas, opinions given on
+> IRC are only available to those people who are present in the moment
+> when such ideas, opinions and informations are given/discussed. All
+> other people (the vast majority) is not present, even dedicated IRC
+> users are not online 24/7.
+> 
+> So IMHO important issues should never be discussed on IRC, less
+> somebody posts related excerpts on the mailing list related to the
+> issue.
+> 
+> IRC is good for short question/answer communication to solve a problem
+> at hand, IRC is good for scheduled meetings of not too large groups
+> (8-10 participants to the max to be productive). But it is not suited
+> for overall discussions you may want to refer to a couple of days
+> later.
+
+I was planning on adding a bot that log conversation, like we do on
+#mandrivafr ( with nice stats too ). I have also set up a meetbot
+instance for meetings. 
+
+But I agree that for better accountability, we should have big
+discussion on ml. 
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+