Can we just setup a StackExchange for fish questions?
On Jan 14, 2016 7:40 PM, "Mike Meyer" <m...@mired.org> wrote:
> Really doesn't matter how good/painful/etc. the forum is if nobody who can
> answer questions is monitoring it. That seems to be the problem with IRC.
> Seems like the problem is "not enough" rather than "nobody", so maybe the
> solution is a bot that recommends the mail list of there is no response?
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 18:08 Bram Geron <b...@bram.xyz> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have experience with StackExchange chat? It seems designed
>> for this purpose.
>>
>> I know that golang has a Slack (gophers.slack.com), but people must ask
>> for an invite to gophers.slack.com because Slack doesn't want anyone to
>> be able to register themselves on any Slack. So Slack is not great.
>>
>> Cheers, Bram
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, at 10:37 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Simon Lees <si...@simotek.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> There are a couple of problems. First, There are more questions posted on
>> IRC #fish that this mailing list. By a very wide margin. And most of the
>> questions posted on IRC don't get a response and the person who asked the
>> question never follows up with a message to this mailing list or opening a
>> github issue. Some percentage of those users, perhaps most of them, are
>> likely to by annoyed that they didn't get an answer. For example, @echindod
>> asked at 11:29 PST yesterday on IRC:
>>
>> "How do you change the color for the Prompt?"
>>
>> No one answered and I don't see any indication he fell back to the
>> mailing list or opened a github issue. At 19:27 @torvhal typed
>>
>> "ls"
>> "fish-shell help"
>>
>> I responded 22 minutes later but @torval didn't respond to my response.
>>
>> Too, at least at my $day job, it is generally understood that the IRC
>> channel open to users is meant for time-sensitive issues that don't warrant
>> paging the on-call person but would benefit from a faster response that is
>> typically gotten from sending a message to the project mailing list; e.g.,
>> someone has noticed what might be a problem such as the backlog of jobs
>> being larger than normal. In the three months I've been monitoring IRC
>> #fish I've never seen such a question. And I'm hard-pressed given the
>> nature of the project to envision what such a question would look like.
>>
>> Finally, questions and answers on #IRC aren't archived and can't be
>> searched. If the person asks on the mailing list or github we have a
>> searchable history of the exchange.
>>
>> --
>> Kurtis Rader
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