VOTE Needed: New "users/contributors" IRC Channels ? y/n

Matt Wagner matt.wagner at redhat.com
Wed Jul 25 15:22:53 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:11:38PM +0530, Nitesh Narayan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I had a thought , since we are expanding the community so at this stage if we divide the channels for supporting users with general issues(#aeolus-support) and other for those who are willing to contribute but not very sure how they can start contributing(#aeolus-contribtute or #aeolus-join) and the last one for development discussions which we already have (#aeolus) .
> 
> As far as #aeolus-contribute / #aeolus-join I got this idea as I am myself part of the team of #fedora-join and there we deal with the same issues as I had explained .
> The other thing due to which I got the thought of this kind of channel was while I was delivering the session on Aeolus in JMI Delhi , then I got many basic questions from folks who were certainly capable of contributing but due to one or the other reason unable to do so .
> 
> About #aeolus-contribute 
> using this channel we would be able to separate the issues of users and dev talks on channel as we all know that some time it gets bit messed up when two or three different communication starts on the same channel and in that case a nomal user may gets confused .
> 
> That is a separate thing that we can manage all these things on the same channel (#aeolus) , But for now for the testing purpose we may try atleast one channel . As we all know we all are hoping to get lots of new users as well as new contributors in the upcoming future so it would be easier and better if we can separate the things right now to keep everything organized at the later stage .
> 
> So, let's put it to a vote.  +1 / -1 style (on list).

Thinking this over a bit more since we talked about it on IRC, I think I
would propose that the idea be modified a bit.

I think having numerous IRC channels will just confuse/fragment things.
If you come to ask a question, which channel should you use? If you
start off asking some basic questions and then move onto development, do
you need to switch channels mid-way through?

Personally, for me, one big channel is fine. But #aeolus does get busy
sometimes, and perhaps it's intimidating to newcomers. What if we
compromised and created one additionally channel -- maybe #aeolus-users
or something of the sort? But we should communicate that it's fine to
ask questions in #aeolus too.

Does that make sense?

-- Matt



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