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[Keshav Kini]

Frank Fischer <frank.fischer at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:
> Am Sat, 26 May 2012 11:13:54 -0700
> schrieb Keshav Kini <keshav.kini at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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