The developers don't hang out in support as it is, and if they try to ask in #drupal now, they get yelled at (chx has even been known to kick people when they do it repeatedly). I have Chatzilla set up so that I auto-join all of the Drupal chatrooms when I start it, so I do lurk in #drupal-support and will occasionally answer questions as I am able (though I tend to focus mostly on #drupal). Personally I think a quiet channel is preferable to getting bitched at. ;-) Angela Byron wrote:
On 1-Aug-07, at 3:35 AM, Dries Buytaert wrote:
Why don't we just swap the channels and see how that goes? Scripted solutions need maintenance, availability and resources. I'd prefer to see all of that go into drupal.org instead but maybe I got my priorities wrong. ;-)
That's fine. Just realize that the natural consequence of this is that developers are probably going to leave #drupal and just hang out in #drupal-dev, the awesome stuff that our contributors are constantly doing will be shuffled away out of public view, we'll have fewer cross-overs of 'newbies' to 'contributors', and peoples' first impression to Drupal will be a room where people ask for help and receive no reply.
This is why I think keeping #drupal-support for people who need/want to provide support and making #drupal a general chat is preferable to simply swapping #drupal and #drupal-support. But of course, whatever you decide is what we'll go with. Let me know and I'll make a front page post, and we can put this issue to rest once and for all.
-Angie
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