Marvin Humphrey wrote on 3/26/10 11:40 AM: > > I'd like to add logged IRC to our kit because I prefer it for brainstorming. > It takes me a lot of time to compose emails, and in general I think that's > time well spent. But for marathon ping-pong matches like the recent "Baby > steps" thread or <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1458>, I don't > think the time that went into those has made them any more comprehensible, > either to people reading along at the time or to people examining the archives > now. If anything, I think we would have brought more people along had we used > IRC because the informal nature of the medium makes it easier for someone to > pop in with a "wait, what?"
I like irc, I use it and other IM tech pretty regularly. I also keep logs of all my sessions, and typically stay logged in so I can read the scrollback. But, while very useful for quick conversations, brainstorming, social stuff, etc., I am mixed about having a public log of everything on the channel. It would tend to fragment the historical record. I like the statement in that lucene thread that if it isn't on the list, it didn't happen. For historical purposes, decision-making, etc., I prefer that. Does the logging really help the community? Or is it simply handy for your own memory-jogging? I'm not faulting the latter, just wondering. -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . [email protected]
