On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 1:25 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > Speaking to my own experience, I have never gotten involved in IRC because I > don't want to have pay for a reflector to know who mentioned me, I don't > want to maintain a server just to have a reflector for free, and I don't > want or have a PC to leave on 24/7 to simply stay connected. >
Me too. [snip] > > The last time I looked into this idea the conclusion I reached was Zulip or > Discourse. I do worry about the accessibility of IRC for new people, but I > also have the same worry about email as more of people's personal > communication move away from it and thus people just aren't set up handle > any sort of volume of email. > > Consider the fact that a standard answer to a lack of email threading on any > of the major email providers is to use gmane's NNTP gateway. I don't think > people realize that anyone who post-dates the '90s has no clue what that > acronym represents and thus poses the same barriers as setting up IRC. And > then asking folks to install a desktop app like Thunderbird just for their > open source email is also an odd request to be making when there are > web-based options. > Many young people have gmail accounts. So I don't think email is more problem than IRC for now. > So for me, the first question is are we just considering alternatives to the > "IRC problem" or are we trying to solve the "new contributors who were born > in the 2000s problem" (for which the latter subsumes the former)? I feel later is important. [snip] _______________________________________________ core-workflow mailing list -- core-workflow@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to core-workflow-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/core-workflow.python.org/ This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct
