Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 5/26/06, Lord Voldemort
<lordbishopvoldemort(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/26/06, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)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