From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IBcGK-0002NS-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:06:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6JK58E8032167; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:05:08 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6JK2w5h029594 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:02:59 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so536497ugf for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:02:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mv4VMe5zQfc8hj1eODrLIIQprQOSLPjIctQkSma5uoEh+aIwXMROC8fkGRolBsg8bx7/8EcROcaQmMKlD9wFJEFZXn+DWoLR8RZLVqTsZCNSi3u9grlO4vTs8DkKLHG/XLkeKd+BtLDljovqAwdMg+oaWtjPBXirxBhoQaBBzxU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=r+6sqb41Z9DJu9voQzUMDwQapoTCAceJowd+ts4smUlhbqYKzOCEFfyBKdzgIq+TOnegU0hfmXB40SZzPeRXtdAiWrZYxIG2c5Vm2aDNGm+L1564v/JPT29ZLdidjPXXZQNSfO4Hz+n3gisLc1YAovoNFpO61br+2/dC79SOt04= Received: by 10.82.186.5 with SMTP id j5mr3680349buf.1184875378164; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:02:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.78? ( [81.79.237.61]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d26sm1994211nfh.2007.07.19.13.02.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <469FC366.8020304@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:02:46 +0100 From: George Prowse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving developer/user communication (was Re: net-im/pidgin protocols) References: <469F1C56.6070600@gentoo.org> <469F372A.9060107@gentoo.org> <469F3A9F.7030004@gentoo.org> <46A0DE7B.6030009@gentoo.org> <469F9271.9080908@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e6721bd6-8818-4dd2-bbc4-c27b730fcfd6 X-Archives-Hash: 25abc929768161179cd62743b03ba0cf Steve Long wrote: > Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: >> Perhaps we also need to make it more clear where users can ask such >> Gentoo-specific questions about specific packages, so they don't need to >> go and annoy upstream. Associate an irc-channel with each package. Most >> packages have a herd associated with them which can belong to a project >> which could have an irc-channel where the relevant developers could be >> found and which can put common problems in its topic. Fallback for when no >> appropriate irc-channel can be found would be #gentoo. Currently it is >> usually difficult to find such irc-channels or to know if there is none >> and that your only option is #gentoo or #$upstream. It would also make it >> easier for users to start helping developers and eventually become >> developers themselves, since they won't need to search for a point of >> entry anymore. >> > I think it's a great idea to have an irc-channel associated with each herd/ > package. Certainly it took me a while to find #gentoo-desktop which is > busier than #gentoo-kde. > > The fallback should be #gentoo-dev-help however, wrt to questions about > changing ebuilds, imo. > > If you want to know how to get a better relationship with users... ask them! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list