Hi Daniel and list, "Daniel Baeza (Red y Sistemas TVT)" <d.baeza@tvt-datos.es> writes:
Yesterday, I've started a discussion in the member list about
exactly which list are you writing 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.
Hmm, from what I've seen in the community here, that doesn't really mean much. If people don't respond it can mean they agree (and wait for a consensus call to keep the noise down) and it can also mean they consider the idea a complete waste of time (and wait for a consensus call to keep the noise down). The problem I see with discussions per IRC is that a lot of us work in the kind of job where we can't keep hanging around in the IRC; or put bluntly, every once in a while I find it impossible to ensure I catch up on the list every evening. So moving discussions and possibly even decision making to the IRC will effectively keep people like me out of that discussion.
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.
Hmm, have Dave and/or Jen agreed to take care of that job? If so, then fine, but I can't possibly take on that job myself. And I'm most definitely not spending time on trying to catch up with discussions by reading whatever transcripts every night or so. Which leads to another problem: While there are a lot of people who write e-mails faster than they think, those people are reasonably rare in this community; but IRC leads to much more noise, which adds a lot of unnecessary work. Cheers, Benedikt -- Benedikt Stockebrand, Stepladder IT Training+Consulting Dipl.-Inform. http://www.stepladder-it.com/ Business Grade IPv6 --- Consulting, Training, Projects BIVBlog---Benedikt's IT Video Blog: http://www.stepladder-it.com/bivblog/