Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 5/26/06, Lord Voldemort lordbishopvoldemort@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/26/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
If you consider your own contributions of such low value that they are not worth going out of your way to present, even including sending someone else in your place... then why should we expect them to be worth our time reading on a mailing list?
I find questioning people's financial situations in poor taste.
Huh? I was refering to the IRC meetings which is what almost all of them have been.
Oh, I thought you meant the in-person meetings.
I don't find IRC (or "chat" generally) a useful or efficient means of communication. Email gives enough space that people can look up sources, consider their positions and arguments, read other material if necessary, and then respond. IRC is a mixture of off-the-cuff and prepared remarks, broken up into small bits with a lot of asides and chit-chat that you have to sit through in real time.
There are some projects that use it effectively, but most projects I've been involved with have dropped it pretty quickly in favor of the mailing lists. The exceptions are ones with a high proportion of people who hang out on IRC to socialize anyway.
-Mark