On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 16:46 -0400, jordan wrote: > >> On this point, is there such a distinction for gnome-shell? I'd love > >> to be able to distinguish between devel and user discussions in my > >> mail client... > > Actually, the #gnome-shell IRC channel and Bugzilla play the role of a > > development list, so very few discussions between core developers > > usually happen on this list. It's more used to help users and occasional > > developers (extensions), or to get feedback. > > Thanks for the clarification Milan, > > that makes total sense, as IRC is used commonly used in development > projects ~ an excellent way to do things in realtime...and obviously > any bug reporting/tracking is commonly used in software development. > > So i would suppose that the distinction would be; the > Gnome-Shell-list is mainly a user list, but also has "shades of grey" > ~ as it is also used by the odd gnome-developer, and sometimes checked > for feedback... gnome-shell doesn't not "specifically" have a > devel-list, as other avenues are used instead... > > that's good to know. ~ as i do belong to other lists - where the > distinction between user-lists and devel-list, is much more clear.... > as in, there is a user-list and a devel-list. lol. :) anyways, thanks > again - you have a great day! > > jordan Hmm. I'd not be quite happy - as i wrote some time ago using IRC makes gnome-shell look like developed behind closed doors as causal developers and/or observers don't have resources to track IRC. Additionally IRC is not logged so it is sometimes hard to track what was decided and why. Regards
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