On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:15:21 +0100, "john cliff" <john.cliff@...400...> wrote:
In fact, I think that not separating "users" and "developers" is part of
the
low barrier to entry that has helped Inkscape flourish. Instead of that split, we have "contributors" of various activities.
The other thing is that quite a lot of questions are answered by the devs in the jabber room, if you split it, then you either loose that, or have to get the devs hanging out in 2 rooms, with the likely result being they notice hte user chat less.
Frankly, the developers probably wouldn't hang out in the separate chat room. Speaking for myself, anyway. I've got enough to keep up with already.
It's not like the volume of user questions in the main Inkscape channel/ conference room is overwhelming, either: in fact, quite the reverse. I'm happy to answer questions if I'm otherwise free at the time.
-mental