I agree with all points: - Plan to have irc channel topic mention that its being logged. I dont think we need to post every few hours because the channel topic is visible non stop in most irc chat applications - Plan not to post transcript to ML by default - Plan to support linking to specific line(s) in the logs
-Michal On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Mike Reinstein <reinstein.m...@gmail.com>wrote: > One thing that would be awesome though; if there was a way to bookmark a > certain timestamp in the irc conversation and be able to refer to it in > mailing lists, jira logs, etc. That would be super helpful. > > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Jesse MacFadyen <purplecabb...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Yes, please do NOT direct irc logs to the mailing list. > > > > Cheers, > > Jesse > > > > Sent from my iPhone6 > > > > On 2012-09-19, at 1:21 PM, Patrick Mueller <pmue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Michal Mocny <mmo...@chromium.org> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Thanks for clearing this up and answering our questions. > > > > > > One of the issues I've seen come up re: IRC is that, if we're logging > it, > > > we should notify folks that we're logging it. One of the ASF irc > > channels > > > goes to an extreme level of posting a message every few hours to the > chat > > > indicating that it's being logged. Personally, I think adding it to > the > > > persistent "topic message" should be good enough. > > > > > > The thinking being notifying people of logging is that some folks might > > not > > > realize it's logged, and say something they didn't want kept in a log. > > > > > > I think posting the log on the ml is total overkill; I would certainly > > add > > > a gmail filter to move it somewhere else, for myself. OTOH, would be > > nice > > > to have a per-day log archive available on the web somewhere. > > > > > > -- > > > Patrick Mueller > > > http://muellerware.org > > >