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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Communication (was: Cowon D2 EABI)Communication (was: Cowon D2 EABI)
From: Dominik Riebeling <dominik.riebeling_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:16:20 +0200 On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Mike Giacomelli <giac2000_at_hotmail.com> wrote: > For what its worth, this whole project has some communication issues. For thosewho don't closely follow the mailing list or IRC logs its often hard to knowwhats going on. I agree, but from my perspective the main problem is that too much discussion happens in IRC and almost none on the ML. It's much easier to follow ML discussions than IRC if you don't have the time to be active on IRC all day: on a ML I have subject lines that give me an easy way to filter messages, and if my client isn't totally broken I can group threads so they aren't interleaved with other things (which does happen all the time on IRC). Discussions on the ML are also slower due to the nature of the medium. Which is a good thing especially for debatable stuff IMO, as it also gives people who aren't around at the time of the initial discussion the opportunity to take part before the discussion is over. Taking part on a IRC discussion that happened 12h ago is almost impossible. Also, reading all IRC logs is quite time consuming, and I'm rather sure that several developers (and I definitely can count myself in here) simply don't find the time to read all the IRC conversations. Having more discussion on the ML instead of IRC (like the discussion about EABI that's been going on "since months") would make it *much* easier to follow. I'm not convinced about some blog-like site helping with those communication problems. It could be nice to sum up ML discussions for users, though. However, I don't think it would work for general development discussions. - Dominik Received on 2010-06-15 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |