From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:29:48 -1000 From: Tim Newsham To: Eric Van Hensbergen , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050523233359.GD14127@xware.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 51809f4c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> #plan9 never has and never will serve as a developer channel. >> signal/noise ratio is too low. any useful comments are quickly >> drowned in the sea of drivel. grep the logs for expletives -- you'll >> find more there than in a linux driver for sparc hardware. > > What's the solution then? Having a more interactive venue to Despite what Andrey said (most of which is true), IRC is still the first place I'd recommend someone with a plan9 question go ask. Depending on who is watching, they could get a good answer, or perhaps just a snide 'RTFM.' When it works it works well and when it doesn't, there's 9fans for a slightly less timely response. I also think IRC somewhat works for development chat. People who are interested in development can talk to each other. Its not hard to ignore people who arent contributing. So, yah, you dont get free multilingual, almost 24 hour/day support service for free... there's a cost -- occasional newbie bashing, dick swinging and off-topic rants. All told still a good buy. > -eric Tim Newsham http://www.lava.net/~newsham/