Re: irc usage..

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 20, 2006, 17:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzmhc1t70.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605201016090.10823@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

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> I hate irc.
>...
> Can we perhaps fix that, and the people who are active on irc please also 
> make it clear to people that if they have some real problems that don't 
> get an immediate answer, the git mailing list ends up where a lot of 
> people can actually look more closely at it.. And tell them what the 
> address is.

I hate irc, too. Number of times easily solvable usage problems come up and I look at the log to realize when the solutions suggested were waaaaay suboptimal it is too late (with loops being quite active recently things have improved a lot, but we should not expect him to be 24/7).

Maybe somebody can run a dumb 'bot that notices somebody said something that ends with a '?' and there is no activity there for N minutes and inject a recorded message that reminds the mailing list address ;-).