Eric Pouech pouech-eric@wanadoo.fr writes:
first, I'd like to hear more about the interest of the idea and not the interest of the tool. secondly, to me, the real benefits of those sessions wouldn't be to have a decent architectural document available (which we nevertheless don't have in lots of areas in Wine), but rather to have developpers share their views / ideas / planned activities on a set of subjects. last, I fully agree with Dimi that Alexandre participation would be greatly appreciated
I have nothing against having such discussions, but I think it's important to make sure that everyone has access to them. Part of the issue with D3D is that the design discussions are taking place on a "private" list, so apart from the handful of people who know about that list, nobody has any idea what's going on. I'm worried that there would be the same problem with IRC: only people who happen to hang around at the right time would have the information. We could of course publish IRC logs but that's not exactly convenient to read... So I'm not sure it would be better than the discussions we already have on wine-devel.