Am 15.06.2011 11:35, schrieb eric b:
Le 15 juin 11 à 11:26, IngridvdM a écrit :
Am 15.06.2011 10:24, schrieb Greg Stein:
All good. Now we just see how the community wants to organize.
I would much prefer to use the mailing lists only.
IRCs have the tendency to continuously exclude those people who are
working in a different time zone and also those that are not always
online.
That's true about the time zone, but I'd better consider IRC as another
tool. IRC is in fact a complementary tool. More precisely we got :
Mail : asynchroous, not localized
IRC : synchronous, not localized
Makes obvious both are different tools, and IRC is an important one too.
e.g.Education Project used to propose ClassRooms (providing the logs to
the -for whatever reason- excluded people), and this wouldn"t never be
possible using mail.
But that's not all, IRC allows to make meetings, or even debug, and work
on the code .. and so on :)
E-Mail is so fast that it can be easily used as synchronous medium too.
I have often debugged and worked on code via mail, that works very well.
Meetings could be set up as a mail thread as well. I would guess that
even a class room thread would be possible.
The advantage of mail is that one can much more easy reconnect to the
discussion. Simply hit reply on the interesting topic. Whereas with a
provided IRC chat log, one has to copy/paste the right text portion from
somewhere to somewhere and mark it as a reference. The reader needs to
read all that text to identify to which topic this entry belongs to.
Mail threads in contrast do preserve the line of discussion inherently nice.
Ingrid
