On 2013-07-03 19:05, Denny wrote:
On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 12:46 -0400, Mark Fowler wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 at 11:10, Daniel de Oliveira Mantovani
wrote:
in #perl at freenode
freenode is…well, freenode. Most people on this list would not
consider
it the 'home' of Perl on irc.
irc.perl.org #perl-help is actually recommended for those people
looking for help with programming, due to hysterical raisins. When EFnet
#perl split onto its own network (called MAGnet at the time) we retained
the original #perl name and made it a social channel, keeping the name
made it more convenient, and of course at the time we didn't think it
would grow much beyond the extant community.
Both #perl and #perl6 on freenode are considerably larger than the
same
channels on irc.perl.org - they're representing the Perl community,
like
it or not. In fact, according to perl6.org it would appear that
freenode is the official home of Perl 6 on IRC.
It might be worth noting that it is possible for projects to assert
ownership of channels on freenode, due to our* rather weird namespace
policies, so in theory it would be possible for Perl's leadership
(such
as it is) to decide to make the #perl channel there a nicer place to
visit... although I imagine the fallout from taking any such action
would be hugely tedious.
We mainly use irc.perl.org (where we have our own #perl)
I got the distinct impression that it would be seriously cruel to
direct
anyone who wanted to discuss Perl problems to that channel.
Regards,
Denny
* I'm part of the freenode staff team.
