Hi,
Am 17.05.2025 um 13:54 schrieb zhengxianwei baikaishiuc@gmail.com:
May I ask, what's the difference between asking questions on irc.libera.chat and asking here?
Will this place gradually be phased out, with activity gradually shifting over there?
Both of them are valid and both of them will exist in the future.
IRC is a more real-time communication system. If you are lucky, and a person who can answer your questions is sitting at their computer, it is easy to have a quick back and forth communication. On the other hand, in plain IRC you don't see messages that are sent while you are offline (*).
Mails to the mailing list are stored and delivered later, so someone who is currently on vacation can see it in 3 weeks.
Both have their place, and will continue to be used by the Wine project. Although I must admit I look less and less at IRC messages, in particular since my employer switched its internal communications to Matrix. Now my IRC client is an extra program I have to start up and often forget about.
I hope this provides some clarification.
Cheers, Stefan
(*): There are separate tools like ZNC that can store IRC messages for you while your computer is off, but they need separate setup.