On 01/14/2016 02:40 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote: > Since joining the fish project a few months ago I've noticed that all > messages on the #fish IRC channel are for help from users (if you > ignore the travis-ci build messages). Those messages would be better > served by sending an email to the fish-users list. At my day job > project specific IRC channels analogous to #fish are clearly > documented to be for active developers and not a mechanism for asking > for users to ask for help. Can we, and should we, do something to the > documentation and or configuration of the IRC channel to make this > clearer? > > -- > Kurtis Rader > Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank Hi,
Not that I'm a active fish developer but in most of the open source projects I contribute too the channel with the projects name ie #fish is generally used for user support as this is where users will look, on smaller projects its also often used for development as well but for any larger projects generally development is split off into another channel thats less advertised like maybe #fish-dev for example. Often the catalyst for the split is that development discussions are getting in the way of user support or the other way around, to me it doesn't seem like #fish is active enough that that is happening often. Open source users (especially ones that have been around for a while) will often come to irc for help as they may get a quicker response then on a mailing list and because its easier to go back and forward quickly to solve issues via IRC. Of course there is times when knowone currently active on IRC knows the answer which can vary alot depending on timezone and in these cases its better to direct people back to the mailing list. Cheers Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
