I had some discussion today and I'd love to get some more insight (@Anton Zayniev and others). I think about spending some of my time next year on Apache-general projects so that might be one I might put some effort into. So I would love to learn more. Anton - I would love to run an experiment with you. Would you like to try to use the https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] to respond to that email - quoting relevant parts etc. ?
- What I really love about email interface is the built-in asynchronous communication (thus slowness). I never expect response immediately, nor provide one. I think this is deeply embedded in the whole Apache Way. People in Apache projects are all over the world, have different schedules/time zones and responding after some time is OK and expected. This is why we gave 72 hrs of voting time for example. Is this something that bothers people who do not like mail interface (Anton?) is your expectation about immediacy of communication? - The UI/interface - have you (Anton and others) used https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] ? like "log-in" and use it as mail sending interface? Not that different from Gmail/Other web interfaces. I am using Gmail for like 12 years now as my only email interface (no clients whatsoever) and never looked back after switching. Maybe you simply don't realise how comfortable and useful it is to use web interface for writing emails or messages? - Or maybe the problem is mobile devices? - I think once you learn how to start new threads, comments with quoting etc, mailing list is pretty useful. I don't think slack is much better in it to be honest. What are the most annoying things that bother you Anton with those? J.
