Hello!
Dare I hope that with the renaissance of the project there'll finally be an
interesting IRC channel associated to it?
I know there's already a very active mailing list for the project - and that's
great - but I believe a dedicated IRC channel would be very useful for people
involved in Ethereal (or in similar projects) to interactively discuss
matters that are not necessarily related to Ethe^H^H^H^HWireshark but that
could turn out to be of interest to most of them anyway, such as high-speed
packet capture, scalable protocol dissection, privilege separation, and
whatnot. Personally I find it increasingly difficult to find people with whom
I can exchange ideas, and I figured I mustn't be the only one.
Now I'm not asking for the creation of such an IRC channel: #ethereal has been
around for a long time on irc.freenode.net, but (except for the one time when
I had the great pleasure of chatting with Gerald Combs himself \o/ ) so far
it's only been me and Ober Heim (who's contributed to Ethereal in the past)
and the usual bunch of driveby users with questions as clueless as "Can I use
Ethereal to capture packets on my network?".
I am asking that core-developers and non-core-developers ("those that only
help with pity little things" as Erwin apparently likes to call them :) ) and
hardcore-ethereal-users (those whose work imply using it on a daily basis)
PLEASE join the #wireshark channel on Freenode that Joerg Mayer created upon
the name change announcement, and STAY there. Nobody's expected to talk all
the time, since of course none of us has the time to, but if everybody gives
a look once in a while to his IRC client running somewhere in the background
and perhaps replies to a line posted no-matter-how-long ago, it will bring a
little liveliness to the channel...
To Gerald in particular (I guess): it would also help if the existence of an
IRC channel for the project was explicitly mentioned on the website (instead
of deep down the FAQ), preferably in the Development section rather than the
Support one (cause we don't want mass arrivals of people that ask questions
about what Ethereal can do before even downloading and trying it).
Also, please note that last time somebody mentioned on this mailing list the
existence of #ethereal, it was in September 2005 and in those terms:
> there has recently been an upswing in activity on the #ethereal channel
> on irc.freenode.net including an actual conversation! It would be nice
> to have more participation. If you're interested, drop by.
How sad.
Regards,
--
Sébastien Raveau
Security Engineer for the French Government
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