IRC

[Wyn Williams <he...@gmail.com>]

Hello
Still following this conversation with interest, IRC is in fact a very
powerful tool in open source communities, log on to #plone for instance,
a lot of people and developers hang out there every day and answer
questions, collaborate with each other and otherwise interact with each
other.

#plone irc channel has an opt-in login feature allowing chats to be
logged and providing valuable references for the future, alongside email
lists (allowing for all to comment) and some real time tools it has put
Plone in the top two percent of active open source projects in the
world.

Plone developers channel is active and a lot gets decided there in terms
of directions which then get fed back into the wider community.

 Tuneups, ( http://plone-tuneup.ning.com/)  are a great tool, these are
held twice monthly, members check out the latest versions and accept
open tickets to work on together coordinating on a separate IRC channel
and using real time online editing tools and pastie.com people make a
real difference to the project and it is a good model to follow for ATS.

Lastly it is great watching a young open source community develop into a
mature model of development and achievement 

Peace

Wyn Williams
IRC: asigottech / Wyn

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 08:24 -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote:

> Hmmm... use of IRC as a development process is not recommended.
> Even if logged and posted, it still, by its very nature, excludes
> people due to timezone differences and the like. Occasional
> uses of IRC (and other more "real-time" events like f2f and
> hackathons) are OK but rare.
> 
> Having an "official" one is not how ASF projects should be run.
> 
> I vote a very strong -1
> 
> On Nov 15, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > in order to get us to sync up for upcoming releases, and all be able to discuss things a little more interactively, I'd like to propose we have an official (and public) IRC session for all developers. My proposal is that we join up on
> > 
> >    Where: #ts-weekly-dev  on irc.freenode.net (standard IRC server for Apache)
> >    When: Every Thursday at 10am PST
> >    Who: Everyone interested in TS development
> > 
> > 
> > The IRC sessions will be logged, and posted to dev@ when finished. In preparation for each meeting, please email me before Wednesday night with topics, issues and things to discuss. I will prepare and email the upcoming agendas on Wednesday evening.
> > 
> > The first of these meetings, as an experiment, will be held this Thursday (11/18), 10am PST. I hope to see you all there.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -- Leif
> > 
>