From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 17:50:43 GMT Subject: Re: irc usage.. Message-ID: <7vzmhc1t70.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > 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 ;-).