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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:22:27 +0200
From: "Emmanuel Lecharny" <elecharny@gmail.com>
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To: "Apache Directory Developers List" <dev@directory.apache.org>
Subject: Re: IRC channel for developers
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Hi Yeliz,

sadly, we don't have anymore logging set up for IRC. And I must say
that generally speaking, those conversation are not very interesting
from your point of view.

The point about IRC is just to discuss very precise things wich does
not worth being shared with the community through the mailing lits,
like "you have committed this code, it breaks the build, can you fix
it", or stuff like that which have very short lives. We prefer using
the ML for questions which can be interesting to the community. This
is the point : when a convo seems to be interesting on IRC, it's
copied/pasted on the ML. IRC convo can also be very personnal, like
when we have to organize travels to a conference.

IRC has been set up at the beginning of the project, like the mailing list.

Regarding the percentage, I have no idea. I would say 70% when it
comes to dev 2 dev convos, but very few for dev 2 users convos. No
important decision is made on IRC, so the balance may change even for
dev 2 dev convo.

Hope it helps.

On 9/10/07, Spark Shen <smallsmallorgan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I think directly discuss our development problem in the mailing list is a
> better idea. Just a suggestion.
>
> 2007/9/10, Yeliz Eseryel < yeliz2002@alum.syracuse.edu>:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I am wondering if the conversations at the IRC channel (for
> > developers) are being logged somewhere that I can access?
> >
> > If it is not being logged, would you please give me an idea on 1) When
> > you started using IRC (for developers), 2) What is the main purpose of
> > this channel 3) On average, what percent of developers' communication
> > occurs over this channel.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Yeliz.
> >
> > --
> > Yeliz Eseryel
> > Ph.D Student in Information Science & Technology
> > Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> > http://enterprisesystems.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Spark Shen
> China Software Development Lab, IBM


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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel L=E9charny
www.iktek.com