On 3 February 2016 at 23:00, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Really, it is not realistic to expect people who need to urgently fix > something to write up a polite e-mail and wait possibly days for you to > reply (especially if you then answer that you don't want the change and more > days are wasted going back and forth arguing for why the change is needed). > Either you are reachable quickly through real-time communication (which > effectively means IRC in the Free Software world) or you will just not be > asked. > > I always curse when I try to contact a packager and see either no IRC > contact info, or an IRC nick that is clearly not in active use (last seen > weeks ago). > If this is a requirement then it rules out a lot of potential packagers who are not full time employed to work on OSS. I could not sit at my desk and respond to IRCs about Fedora all day. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
