Hi everyone, I do agree with Jim and Remco in that IRC would be yet another channel we’d all have to monitor. I therefore think that the relevant communication should stay on the existing mailing list.
Best regards Moritz -- M2Soft GmbH Maarstraße 65 53227 Bonn Telefon +49 228 823002-60 Amtsgericht Bonn 19 HRB 9727 Geschäftsführung Marian Ehlenz Moritz Julian Ehlenz > Am 12.08.2015 um 15:24 schrieb remco van mook <[email protected]>: > > +1 on on everything that Jim just said. You're welcome to discuss any policy > anywhere - in a pub, on IRC, on Facebook, other industry events, you name it > - (and I know almost all of you do) but as long as it's not on the mailing > list, it doesn't count for the policy development process. > > Also I'd like to echo the sentiment that it's yet another communications > channel that I'd need to keep track of - I don't know where any of you finds > the time to do so but I certainly don't have it. > > Best regards > > Remco > (no hats) > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:17 PM Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 Aug 2015, at 13:44, Carsten Schiefner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would not go so far and call this a bad idea > > So I will. :-) It's a bad idea. A Very Bad Idea. > >> - but I am not at all easy about it either. > > Me too! > >> Random (sub) groupings of whatever kind can and should most certainly be >> free to use whatever means of communication they see fit - but address >> policy stuff must IMHO stay on this mailing list. And only there! > > +100. > > The mailing list is supreme. We simply cannot have any confusion/ambiguity > about how to make policy or which fora or tools are appropriate. > > I also do not like the idea of discussions about WG matters taking place > behind (sort of) closed doors, for instance in a chat room or whatever which > excludes those who cannot or will not have access to some IRC client. This > would be the start of a very slippery and dangerous slope: policy development > by twitter or facebook or dropbox or... > > If people want to use IRC or the latest flavour-of-the week Web2.0 fad, they > are of course free to do so. But it must be clear to everyone doing this that > whatever WG business gets discussed there has no significance of any sort > until it comes to the mailing list. > >> I for sure will not open yet another ingress channel I then would need to >> monitor. > > +100. Put bluntly, if a discussion about any WG matter does not take place on > the mailing list, it simply didn't happen.
