Rajko M. wrote:
The IRC as realtime has it's limitations for worldwide usage. It has to be split in regional branches in order to be useful for people that are at work, sleep etc.
True. It's one reason why I've never participated an IRC meeting.
I don't see why email is not good for topics that are discussed on meetings. There is seldom something urgent that has to be solved in real time like it is with installation and configuration issues, where IRC is in obvious advantage.
I've asked quite a long time ago on the old opensuse list (before opensuse-project was created) to send the IRC log and/or a summary of the meeting by email. I thought that this might be useful and could initiate a discussion where necessary, i.e. if something was unclear people could ask for more details on a certain issue. This idea was never picked up.
The only problem is that people should be aware that some thread is dedicated to discuss issues that deserve broad presence, and it is not meant for chatter, but serious dicussion.
Honestly, I don't think that a full discussion by email is possible. Just look at opensuse - 75% is OT or useless, there are the guys who think they own the truth and don't allow any other opinion (which usually leads to heated discussions, e.g. whether programming is just writing text or a bit more than that), there are the guys who think they have to reply to each email (whether they have a useful contribution or not; usually, it's a waste of time), then there are the old guys who have to mention their experiences with PC systems from 1956 or so in almost every thread (otherwise their ego would be hurt), there are guys who instead of just reading what is written tend to read everything in between the lines and come up with obscure interpretations of an email and what it might mean, and so on... Frankly, I think serious discussion by email without any restrictions are not possible. Cheers, Th. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org