- Benjamin Smedberg: IRC Communication
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One of the important communication mechanisms in the Mozilla project is IRC. IRC is a great tool for instant communication among large groups of diverse people. However, it?s easy to mis-use IRC, so I?d like to propose some etiquette rules: Think/search before your ask Google can answer a fair number of questions. Keep the signal/noise ratio high on IRC by checking FAQs and google before asking questions. Ask questions in the right channel Some channels welcome newbies: #xulrunner and #extdev specifically welcome new XULRunner application authors and extension developers. Some channels (#developers) are used for serious/deep project communication, and don?t really welcome novices. If you?re not sure, feel free to silently watch the channel for a few minutes. If you don?t know which channel is right, feel free to ask ?is this the right channel to ask questions about X?. The channel residents will let you know! IRC is not good for some questions Complicated questions are difficult to answer on IRC: ?When I configure with ?enable-XX while cross-compiling from YY, I have problem ZZ.? To answer this question you need to sort through all sorts of issues such as why you?re using ?enable-XX, what the actual error message is, and details about the cross-compile setup. view original article
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