Hi Noah, Sorry I missed this earlier.
Here's my perspective, since I live in a timezone that excludes me from most IRC conversations (and I spend increasingly less time on there when I'm at work now too). My absence isn't a big deal for the project, but I suspect a number of cloudstack developers may be in a similar circumstance - either by timezone, lack of access to IRC, or being mobile a lot. On 21/09/2012, at 12:56 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Cool. Well, I am hanging out in all the channels anyway. Once I find out > who the Group Contact is for Freenode is, I will hand over the registration. Keeping a separate meeting channel, only used during the meeting, still makes sense. I would encourage keeping one channel for hanging out, until it is no longer useful to do so. I haven't seen any evidence that #cloudstack is overwhelmed by any topic to justify a split, and creating a dev-focused channel creates a temptation to make development decisions there rather than on the list. Is there anyone that feels strongly that it is needed? > > As for #cloudstack-private, it would be used for the sort of thing we use > private@ for. Typically quite low volume. But sometimes IRC is better for > collaboration on issues. And sometimes you want to do it in private. :) I can't see how that's a good idea as a place to just hang out. The rare private issues need to be as inclusive as possible. If a meeting is needed, the place and time can be coordinated on the list, and any log/minutes reflected back to those who couldn't attend. Thanks, Brett
