But you have logs from irc discussions just as you have your emails -
all developer channels are publicly logged
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Also, with the exception of asking for technical help,
I don't really like
IRC for developer discussion, and it's not just because I don't go on IRC.
What if you're not online at the time of the discussion? You're completely
left out; no, even worse, you have no idea the discussion even took place.
This really sucks for important discussions. Whereas on the mailing list,
it's always in your inbox, not to mention various mailing list archivers
will preserve the discussion forever.
tl;dr - If this person isn't even a part of the mailing list, I doubt
there's much more IRC can do to help him.
*--*
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2013-02-27 8:30 AM, "Petr Bena"
<benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
as Gry in #wikipedia recently mentioned, there is no IRC channel for
general wikimedia developer purposes - project wide and language wide.
There are subchannels for certain projects, but no general channel for
wikimedia devs of all kinds from all projects.
I suppose we could use #wikimedia-dev as a general channel for all
developers no matter of project or programming language. What do you
think?
Bellow is a message written by Gry who doesn't want to be part of this
mailing list
------- from gry@irc://irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia ---------
Hi,
Could we make an IRC channel dedicated to development of software for
wikimedia projects (bots, js tools like twinkle, irc bots, etc)? Some
people who work on some software for few wikimedia projects would
likely benefit if they had a place to discuss its implementation,
other than just ask #wikipedia (the largest channel of all). As the
questions may get more tricky at times, a smaller, more
development-minded channel could be a tad more effective at actually
helping (regardless of what project they're from, be that wikipedia or
wikibooks or something else).
There currently is #wikimedia-dev which actually is a place for
#mediawiki devs to meet, but they're not too happy with two channels
either [1] and it could be possible to discuss a take over. Or
otherwise a new channel named, say, #wikimedia-devel.
The people who arent happy with two channels are going to be happier with
3?
What's #wikimedia-tech used for now a days? From what I gather it is used
for general technical help on wikimedia projects, which sounds kind of in
the same direction as what you are suggesting (disclaimer: I don't
generally idle/join that channel, so dont really know)
-bawolff
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