Ross beat me to the punch On Sunday, January 18, 2015, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> For me any alternative would still have to push everything into my inbox > where I can use a my preferred tools, each developed and matured over many > years, to help me process the volume of communications I need (filters, > archives, calendars etc.) +1000 And I should be able to interact back by just replying to emails. If I have to context switch just to reply that's a big no. > > Ross > > Sent from my Windows Phone > ________________________________ > From: Benedikt Ritter<mailto:brit...@apache.org <javascript:;>> > Sent: 1/18/2015 4:35 AM > To: dev@community.apache.org <javascript:;><mailto: > dev@community.apache.org <javascript:;>> > Subject: Mailinglists - a tool from the 90s? > > Hi all, > > over at the Apache Commons Project, we have a long discussion about our > mailing lists. Are they to noisy? Should they be splitted up into sublists? > Should individual components go TLP? > IMHO Ben McCann summed up the core problem pretty well [1]. Mailing lists > are simply a outdated tool from the 90s. They can not compete with tools > like github/gitlab that integrate the code with the possibility to do code > reviews, disucssions and bugtracking. > > Now I'm curious: Does anybody here really like the use of mailing lists? Or > do we all simply go through the struggle of setting up filters etc. just > because this is the way it has always been? > > Regards, > Benedikt > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/iizay3mmf2msvaf2 > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter > -- Sent from my phone
