On 31-Jul-07, at 10:48 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
Hi,
Derek nicely summed up:
Either:
1) #drupal-support should be closed and #drupal repurposed to be the support room. 2) #drupal should be a level of indirection (as per my original email in this thread 3) #drupal can remain in whatever weird, intermediary state it's in now.
3) is undesireable. 1) is also undesireable I believe because people will have harder time finding the dev channel, the theme channel, the whatever. The announcement should actually encourage them to lurk in #drupal-dev and ask devel questions there. I always found it baffling that support deals with coding as well.
This leaves 2)
Unless I get *very* convincing arguments against it, I will act on that. Given the activity of the room and my time to code just a bot based on bot module, let's call the day next Monday.
If those are our options, then let's also throw in #4, proposed by Earl (I think?) on IRC earlier: that #drupal become just a general "anything goes" Drupal chat room, and we can refer people to #drupal- support or #drupal-dev if someone starts to monopolize the channel. Unless that's what #2 means... I don't seem to have that e-mail... but "indrection" sounds like you want the channel basically dead with sign posts leading to the various options. If so, I don't believe this is a desirable option, either. Btw, another reason #1 is undesirable is that there is a distinct lack of developers in #drupal-support. #drupal is the main channel that people will see, and it would be nice if there were a plethora of contributors in that channel to help new potential contributors get up to speed or to discuss new, cool things they're working on, etc. -Angie