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Re: logging #svn-dev

From: Justin Erenkrantz <justin_at_erenkrantz.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:29:58 -0700

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Lieven Govaerts <svnlgo_at_mobsol.be> wrote:
> No, that has never been the reason why the channel isn't logged.
>
> If I remember correctly, the reason why #svn-dev isn't logged, is
> because that would promote the idea of having discussions and making
> project-wide decisions on the channel, instead of on the dev mailing
> list. With good reason, not everyone dev/stakeholder will or can join
> IRC or is online at a time when such discussions are held.
>
> So, as long as this isn't going to lead to 'yeah, we discussed and
> decided this some time ago, just look it up in the irc-dev log' style
> of answers I'm okay with this.

That is my fear as well - there should never be a referral to IRC logs
on dev_at_svn. IRC (or any other mechanism) is simply not a place to
make any decisions or real discussions. If that ever happens, then
the logs need to be taken down and removed. -- justin
Received on 2010-03-30 19:30:25 CEST

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