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 1IBboz-0007qj-AS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:37:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6JJat8j017362; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:36:55 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6JJYMRo014120 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:34:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57B6B4A85 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:34:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.896 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.896 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.605, BAYES_50=0.001, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.5] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WkRkQg7x0vWs for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:34:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B639B4A8E for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IBblK-0007J6-VL for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:34:11 +0200 Received: from 82.153.78.37 ([82.153.78.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:34:10 +0200 Received: from slong by 82.153.78.37 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:34:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving developer/user communication (was Re: net-im/pidgin protocols) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:36:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <469F1C56.6070600@gentoo.org> <469F372A.9060107@gentoo.org> <469F3A9F.7030004@gentoo.org> <46A0DE7B.6030009@gentoo.org> <469F9271.9080908@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.78.37 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: a74a5df1-7942-410f-bf1d-95337caed6b4 X-Archives-Hash: e400b4c23099a8fae41041cb761fb4e5 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list