Re: Ideas on merging #linux-ha and #linux-cluster on freenode

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On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Digimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/27/2012 08:51 PM, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Digimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I'm not sure if this has come up before, but I thought it might be worth
>>> discussing.
>>>
>>> With the cluster stacks merging, it strikes me that having two separate
>>> channels for effectively the same topic splits up folks. I know that
>>> #linux-ha technically still supports Heartbeat, but other than that, I
>>> see little difference between the two channels.
>>>
>>> I suppose a similar argument could me made for the myriad of mailing
>>> lists, too. I don't know if any of the lists really have significant
>>> enough load to cause a problem if the lists were merged. Could
>>> Linux-Cluster, Corosync and Pacemaker be merged?
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Digimer, hoping a hornets nest wasn't just opened. :)
>>>
>>
>> I think the only thing you missed was proposing a meta-project to rule
>> them all :-)
>
> Let me dig around for that ring, I know it's somewhere...
>
> Joking aside though; All the different lists and channels made sense
> when there were different stacks and independent components. This is not
> really the case anymore though, and will become all the more less so in
> the future.

For now.  There is no reason to think that no-one will ever write a
better X than Y.

>
> I often worry when I suggest someone go somewhere for help that the
> right person who *could* have helped them is not in the given channel or
> list. I think it would benefit the community to have one channel and one
> list.

I don't care about the distinctions as much as I used to.
But I think we're generally pretty good at suggesting alternate
lists/rooms if the known topic expert hangs out somewhere else.
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