On 01 Aug 2007, at 04:48, Karoly Negyesi 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 3) #drupal can remain in whatever weird, intermediary state it's in now.
This leaves 2)
I haven't read up on the entire thread yet -- I usually don't have the time to hang out on IRC so it doesn't really affect me. Either way, I think (2) is a weak compromise. I'm all for making #drupal the de facto support channel, and moving all development issues to #drupal-dev. That looks like IRC usability 101? For me, it's not a big deal to type #drupal-dev instead of #drupal. Personally, I don't care whether I have to join #drupal or #drupal- dev. However, I do care about our users, and them being able to find support with minimal barriers. There was a time where drupal.org was _only_ for developers too. Then users started coming in, and we had to adapt to that as well. There seems to be a solid case for breaking backward compatibility, and changing our IRC APIs for the better. ;-) -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/