Comment 37 for bug 392799

How about instead of permanently breaking #ubuntu into topic-specific channels, we create short-lived temporary channels to help one person with their issue. I liken #ubuntu to a crowded room at a party. If you want to hold a conversation with someone, you each move to a corner of the room so that your conversation doesn't compete with the other conversations and general pleasantries.

If someone needs help that is going to take more than a quick answer, you can ask a bot (ubottu or another) to create a "corner" channel for you. It would create and manage the channel, invite the person you are helping, and maybe announce the creation of the corner and topic to anyone else who might want to follow you there. The bot could then close the room when you're done, and maybe provide a summary of the conversation back to #ubuntu. Additional bot features could be creating a new bug in Launchpad, attaching the corner channel's log automatically.