Re: PHP Mirrors: Real-Time Communications?

Hi, 1a.) Should we do this? No - Current system seems to be working. E-mails have been mostly quiet until recently. I do miss the Sunday-night status summary. 1b.) Would you participate? I would rather not - I already have too many different forms of communications to worry about than to have another one to install and maintain. Cheers! Marc On 01/06/2012 5:07 PM, Daniel Brown wrote:

     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.