[development] Tips on keeping up?

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Earl Miles <merlin at logrus.com>:

> Tao Starbow wrote:
>> issues queues (and which ones)?  Should I stop reading Planet Drupal 
>> and spend an hour a day over at #drupal?  Or should I just chill and 
>> assume that if someone wants my help they will contact me directly?
>
> Certainly spending time in #drupal is a great way to get information 
> (Sometimes too much of it) but it's not a way to get reliable actual 
> information.
>

And not an option for many.  IRC chatting is great for many but for the 
other many it isn't even an option.  Unless the information presented 
in the chat is searchable and easily findable then it is lost on a 
smaller set of developers.

Earnie