On 3 February 2016 at 23:00, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Really, it is not realistic to expect people who need to urgently fix
something to write up a polite e-mail and wait possibly days for you to
reply (especially if you then answer that you don't want the change and more
days are wasted going back and forth arguing for why the change is needed).
Either you are reachable quickly through real-time communication (which
effectively means IRC in the Free Software world) or you will just not be
asked.
I always curse when I try to contact a packager and see either no IRC
contact info, or an IRC nick that is clearly not in active use (last seen
weeks ago).
If this is a requirement then it rules out a lot of potential
packagers who are not full time employed to work on OSS. I could not
sit at my desk and respond to IRCs about Fedora all day.
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imalone
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