Re: is this list alive?

Maik Schreiber wrote:
>>> I subscribed to this list last week to watch closely the development
>>> of gentoo installer, but so far, it's dead.
>>
>> Many/most of us prefer to talk in the #gentoo-installer IRC room at
>> Freenode.
> 
> I really think this is an incredibly bad idea because it doesn't take 
> into account the different time zones or working times of the folks 
> watching the project and possibly wanting to help out. In my opinion the 
> mailing list should be the central place to discuss things, not some 
> direct messaging systems or IRC. Even if that means discussions would be 
> slowed down.

Well, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it. Using the IRC channel as 
the central place for discussion has worked just fine for this project for over 
a year, especially since most (if not all) of the devs on the project are within 
a timezone or two of each other. We're not going to inconvenience ourselves and 
slow down development just to cater to a few people that may just be watching 
the project.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project