Addison Berry wrote:
Well a large part of my resistance is simply that this wasn't discussed at all in the community. IF this is a direction that we are moving in then I think it needs discussion and letting people know about it. Of course it won't change if people don't even know about it. It has the *feeling* of being an exclusive "in the club" thing. Of course, publicizing it means that newbies will just start to come there to get their questions answered, especially if no one is helping them in #drupal.
If it feels like it's meant to be exclusive, it's no more exclusive than #drupal ever was. It's simply better labelled. There has never been any intention of excluding people; instead the intention has been clarity of labelling. If you've felt that, somehow, you or other people you know are being intentionally excluded, that is a completely unintentional slight. For those who I know knew about the channel and haven't come over, I've generally assumed any of those people were in the group who thinks #drupal-dev is a bad idea. If what I've already said hasn't changed their minds, it's not going to.