[openstack-dev] [tc][all] Do we need a #openstack-tc IRC channel

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Tue May 16 15:46:09 UTC 2017


On 05/16/2017 11:17 AM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 09:38:34AM -0400, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> See $TITLE :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dims
>>
> 
> My preference would be to have an #openstack-tc channel.
> 
> One thing I like about the dedicated meeting time was if I was not able to
> attend, or when I was just a casual observer, it was easy to catch up on
> what was discussed because it was all in one place and did not have any
> non TC conversations interlaced.
> 
> If we just use -dev, there is a high chance there will be a lot of cross-
> talk during discussions. There would also be a lot of effort to grep
> through the full day of activity to find things relevant to TC
> discussions. If we have a dedicated channel for this, it makes it very
> easy for anyone to know where to go to get a clean, easy to read capture
> of all relevant discussions. I think that will be important with the
> lack of a captured and summarized meeting to look at.

The thing is, IRC should never be a summary or long term storage medium.
IRC is a discussion medium. It is a hallway track. It's where ideas
bounce around lots are left on the floor, there are lots of
misstatements as people explore things. It's not store and forward
messaging, it's realtime chat.

If we want digestible summaries with context, that's never IRC, and we
shouldn't expect people to look to IRC for that. It's source material at
best. I'm not sure of any IRC conversation that's ever been clean, easy
to read, and captures the entire context within it without jumping to
assumptions of shared background that the conversation participants
already have.

Summaries with context need to emerge from here for people to be able to
follow along (out to email or web), and work their way back into the
conversations.

	-Sean

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