On Sun, 30 May 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> What's a drive-by, and until a post is made and answered
> somewhere, how is a user supposed to know if a failure is
> caused by something local (mix of software, internet
> infrastructure), one repo mirror, or the basic
> infrastructure?
Lemme change hats
Dunno that I know your 'nick', Les, nor have seen contribution
by you in #centos IRC. Is the CentOS' re-design on IRC a
culture you understand via lurking a bit? [Clearly the earlier
poster I trimmed down to respond to was not, as it clearly
misstated some CentOS changes from 'bog standard' IRC
practice]
First order answer:
A drive by is a person who pops into channel, does NOT read
/topic, does NOT lurk for a minute or two, immediately asks a
question fragment usually in 'l33t spe@k' or AOLbonics. They
will re-ask it 15 seconds later when an answer is not
immediately offered. If answered, it will turn out that there
was some additional backstory such that the drive-by's queston
was not well formed
Second order answer:
A 'serial' drive by is known by their 'nick' as such by the
regulars who do the heavy listing in the change of adding
substantive content, and as such, not treated as a priority to
answer; Often we will see that 'nick' posting the same
question as a cross-posting in parallel on several channels,
or a referral to #centos from side projects of similar import
or from forks (usually broken ones) unwilling to support their
load, and so shifting it to us
-- Russ herrold
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