Re: PHP Mirrors: Real-Time Communications?

Hello Daniel, +1 for the idea. 1. Should we do this: yes Would I participate: yes 2. Using IRC (with a public or private server with a channel with a key) is the option I prefer (as I'm always in some IRC channels and check IRC from multiple devices). Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Mark Scholten Op 1 jun. 2012 om 23:07 heeft Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> het volgende geschreven: > Greetings, all; > > I know you're getting bombarded with emails from me, and I'd like > to apologize. Now, with that said, what if there was even more > communication, but on a regular basis? > > What I would like to discuss with you all is the idea of having an > always-on chat system (IRC, Jabber, et al) for official mirror > maintainers to join, which would allow not only for quicker two-way > communication between yourselves and us, but also among yourselves, as > well. In addition - and here is the most important part - I would > like for the mirrors program to evolve into more of a democratic and > participant-driven entity. Over the years, I've worked with dozens of > you individually, in public or in private. I've barked orders from > time to time and you've consistently been gracious enough to go along, > even when I'm acting the part of an Army Drill Sergeant[1][2]. > > So I'd like to gather your opinions and see if we can start > something up right away, and others can join in over time. If we > reach eleven similar opinions in favor of doing this (>10% of the > mirror maintainer population), we'll set the ball rolling in the > direction of the general consensus. > > To begin, there's just two two-part questions: > > 1.) Should we do this, and would you participate? > 2.) Should we use something public like IRC or something > private like our own Jabber server? > > Thanks all, for everything. > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Network Infrastructure Manager > http://www.php.net/