[Development] PSA: Qt Project IRC logs & statistics

[Mitch Curtis]

On 05/02/2013 12:45 PM, Knoll Lars wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've received some concerns about privacy regarding the IRC logs. The main concern was about join/leave messages showing exact times as well as IP addresses of the people joining and leaving. In addition, some people feel uncomfortable that whatever they say on IRC basically stays around forever.
>
> I understand these concerns and I think it's a good idea if we discuss this here, and hopefully come to a common policy about this for qt-project.org.
>
> Thanks,
> Lars
>

Can't anyone collect this information with their own IRC client though? 
I think people should treat the IRC channels just like these mailing 
lists, or Gerrit, Jira, etc., in the sense that it's all public.