On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 11:22 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 01:50:31PM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek@gmail > > .com> > > wrote: > > > > > Yeah, you have to do a lot of quite complicated stuff before you > > > can > > > register and get any support via irc. To register to this mailing > > > list > > > you just send an email (or can you fill in a form as well). > > > > > > > Complicated is relative. If you don't understand how it works, > > it's best > > to research. There > > are many guides a google search away. > > > > IRC can be helpful for support, but being interactive you're > > assuming that > > someone is standing by > > waiting for you to ask a question - which may or may not be the > > case. IRC > > is more functional for online > > meetings and group discussions. Mailing lists, forums, bugzilla, > > etc. are > > better for support and investigation of issues. > > Also IRC is either not archived and made searchable, or where it is > archived it's usually hard to follow the conversation thread. > > Therefore we answer questions on IRC over and over and over again. > (In #libguestfs I try to add such questions to our FAQ, when I have > the time and remember to do it). https://ask.fedoraproject.org or > mailing lists are a much better solution. To set the cat among the pigeons a bit, it'd sure be interesting to consider setting up one of the F/OSS Slack-alikes for Fedora use...of course, there's a question of at what point we have too many tools. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
