[cellml-discussion] CellML IRC

[James Lawson]

This makes sense, but I actually think it would be good to have a more 
casual medium for discussion that *isn't* highly linked up and 
searchable. Logs would certainly be useful, but the current media 
(mailing list, tracker etc.) are very much public fora.

David Nickerson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:02 AM, James Lawson <j.lawson at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>   
>> Dear CellML community,
>>
>> We have had an IRC channel in the past, but I believe that it fell into
>> disuse. I have been pretty interested in getting it going again for
>> sometime, so I thought I'd canvass interest. Who thinks they'd be
>> interested? I'd suggest we just put it on freenode...
>>     
>
> If I remember correctly, while it did fall into disuse there was an
> actual decision made not to continue with that line of community
> communication. Especially now as the tracker is being proposed as the
> place to have specific discussions that maybe are not of general
> interest to the community, it would seem to me to be a bad idea to add
> one more independent archive that would need to be searched by users
> in order to ensure they cover all possible previous discussion
> threads.
>
> Perhaps if there was some way to integrate freenode searches into the
> tracker search engine then this would make more sense? Better yet,
> provide a single search and respond interface for the tracker, mailing
> lists, and any other discussion forum and then people can easily
> choose the most appropriate medium for them to interact on (with?).
>
>
> Andre.
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