Re: Mailing lists (Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko)
- From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>
- To: David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>
- Cc: Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>, Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>, foundation-list gnome org, Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
- Subject: Re: Mailing lists (Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko)
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:55:27 -0600
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 12:19 -0500, David Bolter wrote:
> Thinking aloud:
> I wonder if we could expose the #gnome channel (or similar) as perhaps a
> one-click "Get Help" menu item... perhaps under the "Place" menu. The
> user could have an automated nick that describes their distro etc.
> Friendly #gnome or #gnome-help (or whatever) lurkers could say recognize
> the nick as a help-needer and invite their questions.
Congratulations, you just reinvented MonkeyChat.
Ximian GNOME (or was it before that - Helix GNOME?) had a patch to add a
"Help/Get help" menu item. It would take you to a minimal IRC client on
a predefined channel. I have absolutely no idea of how it worked out.
Federico
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