[advocacy-discuss] The need for a separate #opensolaris-help IRC channel

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

It is interesting to hear people saying "we are here first....". I think 
we will need something like #opensolaris-help.

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Paul Harper 写道:
> One of the things I notice on the #opensolaris IRC is a lack of enthusiasm for Indiana and also a lack of enthusiasm for assisting people with Indiana enquiries. A lot of people who are on the channel use Solaris Express Community Edition.
>
> I believe that the way to go would be to have a separate #opensolaris-help channel where new  people can go to ask stupid questions without annoying the long term developers discussions. Even Ubuntu has a separate #ubuntu-devel channel for this. 
>
> This attitude may be putting off some people adopting OpenSolaris.
>
> A sample of the IRC Chat:
>
> (13:29:27) mohkohn: It looks like we will get updated Indiana iso's in the near future on bittorrent: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=253566&#253566
> (13:30:57) e^ipi: mohkohn, plenty of people in here don't use indiana
> (13:39:04) mohkohn: e^ipi: Why does website direct people to this channel? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/chat/
> (13:39:31) e^ipi: marketing is trying to silence us
> (13:41:34) quasi: flood the channel with annoying noobs till the point of drowning any existing clue
> (13:42:53) mohkohn: I have only been around here for a few days but I can see the need for an opensolaris-sece channel and an open-solaris-2008.05 channel
> (13:43:52) mohkohn: or #opensolaris-dev or #opensolaris-help
> (13:46:23) taltamir left the room (quit: Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)).
> (13:46:31) mohkohn: To quote The Offspring "You got to keep them separated"
> (13:48:00) LeftWing: #opensolaris-200805 & #opensolaris-grumpy. :P
> (13:48:45) e^ipi: we were here first
> (13:48:50) libkeiser: i'd rather be grumpy than use indiana
> (13:49:03) LeftWing: So it would seem.
> (13:49:30) estibi [n=estibi at apn-227-214.gprsbal.plusgsm.pl] entered the room.
> (13:51:29) trygvis: is it not possible to create a mirrored zfs after initializing it with single device?
> (13:51:35) trygvis: s,initializing,creating,
> (13:52:06) mohkohn: e^ipi does have a point. I would think #opensolaris-help would be the way to go. Easy to remember and you can redirect FNG's to it.
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