[development] #drupal / #drupal-dev split considered harmful
Earl Miles
merlin at logrus.com
Wed Aug 1 00:38:25 UTC 2007
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.
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