On 02/02/16 23:19, Martin Vahi wrote: [---] > Thank You for the comparison. What regards to > Your statement that "e-mail refuses to go away", then > my answer is that the majority of the population on > planet Earth does not consist of software developers > or old-school communications technicians/electronics engineers > and therefore uses the tools that the people > at technical professions have to offer. If the > AIM/ICQ/Vine/Google+/Buzz... was a temporary > phenomenon and people still revert back to > the old, unencrypted, un-anonymized e-mail, then > the only ones to blame are the software developers, > not the dentists, neuro-surgeon, biologists, > mathematicians, accountants, cooks, airline service providers.
It's not really a question of "reverting back to email", I think that timeline illustrates that a large group of people chase what's shiny, and don't really care if something disappears in a year or two. For communication which is ephemeral, that's perfectly fine, but typically developers want things which work and will continue to do so for 20+ years; and archives are hugely important. Random Shiny Web2.0-company Based Communication Platform may or may not exist in two years. Mailing lists do not depend on a particular company existing or not. Back in the day when some projects moved to web based forums I was naive enough to bookmark threads which I in my email client would have marked as "don't delete". Years later I noticed that plenty of these forums had moved around (URL changes), and those links pointed to nowhere relevant. Important information disappearing like that is completely unacceptable. Not that I don't get that there are good things about these new platforms, but I don't see what they offer which outweighs what I lose. If you want developers to move away from mailing lists, invent something which doesn't have all the drawbacks of other technologies, but improves on the things which are important to us. We're not afraid of change, but we do require change to be improvement (in a pragmatic sense). -- Kind Regards, Jan _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
