"The shoemaker's children go barefoot." In fact, some "IRC -> coherent whole" workflow would be really interesting beyond this one problem. It intersects with the problem abstracting coherence out of movie subtitle tracks.
And it would be totally salable to the US Dept of Homeland Fascism. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Dave Stuart < david.stu...@progressivealliance.co.uk> wrote: > Just a suggestion, if we had logging available could we mail out a digest > of the days IRC chat to the mailing list. I know there could be a bunch of > noise in there from banter etc, but it wouldn't take much to scan for > anything important. We could get crazy and and run it through one of > Mahout's clustering algorithms and classify things > > > On 31 Aug 2011, at 16:00, Ted Dunning wrote: > > > IRC is also used heavily in the hbase community and people do use it > there > > for install questions pretty commonly. > > > > Whether this works is critically dependent on having guys like Mike Stack > > who are able to keep an eye on IRC and answer the questions. My own > > preference is to use the mailing list for these support purposes because > we > > have such broad timezone distribution. > > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org > >wrote: > > > >> On the user side, there is a huge benefit for discussions to be on the > >> mailing list here as I think most people's workflow, plus Google, etc. > make > >> it easy to lookup past answers. That being said, most users in Lucene > land > >> don't use the IRC channels for questions. It's more a dev hangout. > >> > > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
