Eric Sandeen wrote:
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 23 June 2008 at 23:57, Colin Walters wrote:
>> 2008/6/23 Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com>:
>>
>>> This weekend at Paul's State of Fedora talk at the end of the sessions
>>> on Saturday, he mentioned several areas where Fedora really could
>>> improve. One of these areas was the help that people get on the #fedora
>>> irc channel.
>> I think IRC is kind of fundamentally doomed because of the culture.
> It's possible to keep small channels (<50 people) nice and civil, but
> with more people, it's not really viable unless you have an op watching
> at all times.
What if there were #fedora-filesystems, #fedora-gnome, #fedora-sound,
$fedora-$WHATEVER to focus the discussions & keep things a bit more
manageable? Or is that just many more tabs for the fedora-keepers to
lurk in...
I work on the #fedora-java channel. It's not perfect but ot does work.
Web forums are no substitute for immediate communication.
Andrew.