On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Alan Alpert <4163654...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given those guidelines, our possible answers are either "No (i.e. > there is no permission given for public logging)" or "list it in the > channel topic for logged channels (and possibly leave some channels > deliberately unlogged)". > > I'm personally in favor of the latter, because the free flow of > information is generally useful to open projects (and this is *not* > sensitive personal data).
This pretty much sums up the reasoning for why I've been doing this all along. Some knowledge is passed down through IRC (and unfortunately not recorded elsewhere). Having the ability to find that again when required is often an invaluable resource. As a very simple example, #qt-labs a long time ago is where I learned about memory barriers and reordering. The same can be said about #qt -- the primary purpose of most people going there is to learn, and to ask questions/help each other, and what better way to do that than helping to retain a collective memory? I do think that having an archive of discussion of useful topics like that in general is invaluable, just like a mailing list archive, a VCS commit log, etc. BTW: I had the same concerns pointed out to me privately, which is why the logs are offline again at the moment until I can take the time to remove information that isn't of interest to the project such as IP addresses. I haven't had the time to do this, or to send mails about this, until now, but I do agree with removing it. It isn't technically or socially useful. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
