I agree, I would also like to know of this official channel and join it. --
Darren Duncan
On 2021-03-12 11:21 p.m., Richard Hainsworth wrote:
This is a request to the Raku Coordinating Council that was elected at the end
of last year.
Please name a channel where community wide plans or announcements are made. Or
may be establish one.
I found out yesterday by the intervention of a regular participant in the
community that a new documentation website is being worked on.
I joined a conversation on the raku-dev IRC and discovered that the plans are
quite far established. Since I have been working full-time for three months on a
project that could (not should!!) serve as the infra-structure of a new site, I
was really quite surprised and I am sure many of you will understand it was
jarring.
I follow all the conversations on this email list. I have found it very
difficult (due to my own technical incompetence relating to github) to set up my
github preferences to get regular notification about issues. I have also found
that the IRC chats are streams of consciousness that are difficult for me to
manage.
It seems however, that it is my fault that I was taken by surprise by the news
of a different documentation website and that I should have been following all
the issues on the documentation repo or the problem solving repo.
It *IS* reasonable for Raku developers and community organisers to make it the
responsibility of a participant to follow conversations, but I would suggest
that the current scattering of conversations, on the IRC chat, various github
repositories, this email list, is not *optimal* for the development of a
coherent Raku community. It is also - I would suggest - a waste of human
resources if the same objectives are pursued by multiple enthusiasts without any
coordination or communication.
If the Raku Council were to designate some channel, whether its an email list,
an IRC chat, or a github repo, or maybe a discord or slack or other channel as
the main community resource, then I would make sure I could read all the
messages there and stay in touch with what is happening.
Hence my request to the Raku council to consider improving communication between
developers and the wider Raku community.
Regards
Richard Hainsworth
aka finanalyst
