Hi, If I (or someone) made an IRC channel on freenode for evil-mode, would users/developers be interested in hanging out there to field questions or have realtime dev discussion? I feel that it might be more accessible to users than the mailing list, but for evil-mode's audience that might not be true, I guess. -Keshav
Am Sat, 26 May 2012 11:13:54 -0700 schrieb Keshav Kini <[email protected]>:
Hi,
If I (or someone) made an IRC channel on freenode for evil-mode, would users/developers be interested in hanging out there to field questions or have realtime dev discussion? I feel that it might be more accessible to users than the mailing list, but for evil-mode's audience that might not be true, I guess.
In principle I'm not against this although I'm a little bit skeptical. The IRC would require being online a lot (or needs a relatively large user base so that at each time at least someone is online, but evil is (still) a small project). That's the advantage of a mailing list, it's more offline and "round based" instead of real-time (which has its own advantages, of course). And nobody expects an immediate answer. Furthermore (I can't speak of others, of course) my own online time is relatively limited so my "hanging around" would probably be quite infrequent (in fact, I've not used IRC for a long time now). On the other hand, it may help (new) users if enough active users participate. It does not cost anything, so why not give it try? Frank
Frank Fischer <[email protected]> writes:
Am Sat, 26 May 2012 11:13:54 -0700 schrieb Keshav Kini <[email protected]>:
Hi,
If I (or someone) made an IRC channel on freenode for evil-mode, would users/developers be interested in hanging out there to field questions or have realtime dev discussion? I feel that it might be more accessible to users than the mailing list, but for evil-mode's audience that might not be true, I guess.
In principle I'm not against this although I'm a little bit skeptical. The IRC would require being online a lot (or needs a relatively large user base so that at each time at least someone is online, but evil is (still) a small project). That's the advantage of a mailing list, it's more offline and "round based" instead of real-time (which has its own advantages, of course). And nobody expects an immediate answer. Furthermore (I can't speak of others, of course) my own online time is relatively limited so my "hanging around" would probably be quite infrequent (in fact, I've not used IRC for a long time now).
On the other hand, it may help (new) users if enough active users participate. It does not cost anything, so why not give it try?
Yup, those are more or less my thoughts. It makes most sense if there are a lot of users. But on the other hand one has to start somewhere... well, anyway, I am camping in #evil-mode on irc.freenode.net now. Anyone is welcome to come there :) -Keshav
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