On 7/31/07, Karoly Negyesi <karoly@negyesi.net> wrote:
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
Did I miss that email? Can you link to it on the archives? 3) #drupal can remain in whatever weird, intermediary state it's in now.
3) is undesireable.
Agreed. 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.
How is it harder now to find -theme or -dojo? All it takes is to add it on d.o (and g.d.o and whatever) where we list the IRC channels, and that is it. I think repurposing #drupal is the most obvious solution, and as others pointed out, look at #ubuntu and #gentoo and #debian ... 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.
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