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This is entirely dependent on what OSS you're working with, and not in any way representative of OSS as a whole.
by Klonoar 3y ago
This is entirely dependent on what OSS you're working with, and not in any way representative of OSS as a whole.
- mort96 3y agoThat might be why I said “a whole host of open source projects” and not “all open source projects”.
- Klonoar 3y ago> If you work with open source software, not using IRC really limits what you can do and who you can reach. No, I was responding to the highlighted line here, which is fundamentally wrong. ;P
- mort96 3y agoI see. That doesn't make a difference though? Not using IRC limits who you can reach. In some projects, all the interesting people are easily reachable through IRC (and less reachable through other channels). Of course there are other projects where all the interesting people are reachable through matrix or gitter or zulip or slack, and if you're interacting with those projects, IRC won't do much to help you. That doesn't mean "not using IRC limits who you can reach" is false; it just means you may not have an interest of interacting with the people who you can't reach without IRC.