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From: Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Improving developer/user communication (was Re: net-im/pidgin protocols)
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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.
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