From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:44:58 -0700 Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net ([24.147.1.143]:53437 "EHLO chmls05.mediaone.net") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:44:44 -0700 Received: from decoy (h00a0cc39f081.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.252.183]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA07923; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:44:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <019501bfe1bf$99746b10$0a00000a@decoy> From: "Jay Carlson" To: "Eric Watkins" , References: <001c01bfd6f7$536705b0$540ed7c0@hq.sd.cerf.net> Subject: Re: Status reports? Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:46:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing "Eric Watkins" writes: [...] > I know lots of this information gets distributed via IRC but someone should > let everyone, who's not on IRC all the time, know what's going on and what > progress is being made. IMO this is a serious problem for many open source development projects today. Much of the interaction occurs in IRC or instant message chats, and not in email. The people who are participating in the online chats have much better coordination, but it ends up excluding a lot of people. It's not just people in the wrong timezone who lose out---projects also lose the potential effort of people who join the mailing list, see nothing going on, and don't get a chance to help. I've found that even casual readers of a mailing list can bring insight from other projects to bear on problems. Jay From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <019501bfe1bf$99746b10$0a00000a@decoy> From: "Jay Carlson" References: <001c01bfd6f7$536705b0$540ed7c0@hq.sd.cerf.net> Subject: Re: Status reports? Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:46:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Return-Path: To: Eric Watkins , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20000629114601.MhXWIw0MggmZLYkYiLJrj7GbM-WwyNk8o2ryq8jLRe4@z> "Eric Watkins" writes: [...] > I know lots of this information gets distributed via IRC but someone should > let everyone, who's not on IRC all the time, know what's going on and what > progress is being made. IMO this is a serious problem for many open source development projects today. Much of the interaction occurs in IRC or instant message chats, and not in email. The people who are participating in the online chats have much better coordination, but it ends up excluding a lot of people. It's not just people in the wrong timezone who lose out---projects also lose the potential effort of people who join the mailing list, see nothing going on, and don't get a chance to help. I've found that even casual readers of a mailing list can bring insight from other projects to bear on problems. Jay