On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:35:18AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > Warren Togami schrieb: > >Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >>Warren Togami schrieb: > >>>After weeks of discourse on IRC and mailing list discussions, > >> [...] > >>>In order to make this meeting manageable, we must limit the number of > >>>attendees. Invited are the existing members of the Fedora Packaging > >>>Committee, Thorsten Leemhuis and certain Red Hat employees relevant > >>>to this discussion. Please talk to me directly if you have been an > >>>active contributor to this in the past but are not included in this > >>>invitee list. > >>There were no discussions on IRC (Axel invited me once but I couldn't > >>join it -- private matters were blocking, sorry). I really would > >>prefer a IRC disussion over a Teleconference -- that's IMHO the better > >>to coordinate and a lot easier for those of us that don't speak > >>english that often. > > > >Hmm, good point about English, it could very well make it difficult for > >us to communicate. I wouldn't mind and the main disputants here are non-English natives both. It would be probably the rest not understanding our pronounciation ;) > IRC IMHO has even one more benefit that would help in this especially in > this case: You can paste URLs to mails in the archive or on the web. We can fire up an IRC session in parallel to paste in things. > Further: multiple people can write in parallel (that's a advantage and a > disadvantage at the same time). A disadvantage of telephone conferences: > they often consume all of your attention -- in an IRC-Meeing you can go > afk for one minute if there is a need to and read what happened in between That's the real disadvantage of IRC: You wait for someone's reply who went on doing other things and while waiting you decide to do other stuff yourself. In a typical IRC session there is a round-about in dialogs of 5/minute while voice gets up to 15/minute. I'm in for any form, IRC sessions have the big advantage of being archivable and searchable. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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