On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Daniel Baeza (Red y Sistemas TVT) <d.baeza@tvt-datos.es> wrote:
Yesterday, I've started a discussion in the member list about promoting the use of IRC instead of Mail List for some kind of discussions, chit chat, etc.
Not much members answered, but all who did said yes.
The goal is to have, at least, one channel per mail list, but not limited to only that.
For this list, an #ipv6 channel will be created and administrated by the WG Chairs.
[WG-chair hat on] What does 'administrated' mean in this case? I'd love to know what I've been volunteered for ;) Especially taking into account that WG chairs have other day jobs and are not necessary able to monitor IRC channel on regular basis. [WG-chair hat off] If people would like to have a place to informal chat nobody could prevent them. However I have a few concerns. In particular, segmentation of the information. IRC would one more communication channel to track (and it is not the best one if you would like to find out what happened while you've been on vacation, for example). We do not have so much traffic on ipv6 mailing list so I do not see a use case for offloading informal discussions to IRC channel to increase signal/noise ratio. If someone would like to have an informal chat about IPv6 @irc - there are IPv6-related channels around so I'm inclined to use Occam's razor here ;) -- SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry