+1 On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:53 AM Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the info, Bertrand. > > Mailing lists can be just as exclusive as semi-synchronous environments. > They may not work for your community, but they work for ours, and removing > them will necessarily disadvantage many contributors. > > I'm firmly of the opinion that you can't completely ignore real-time > communications and expect 100% of everything to occur asynchronously on > mailing lists. It explicitly disallows certain types of communication that > you can't have in a mailing list. You have the imposition of the formality > of a mailing list for newcomers, you have the "being on record" syndrome, > you have the "must be subscribed to post" problem (not always), and finally > you are ignoring the fact that people will talk real time anyway - so why > not make that a venue that you at least have some control/visibility over? > In fact, my doctoral research was on how semi-synchronous communications > support distance work and learning better than fully asynchronous ones.... > > -Joan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bertrand Delacretaz" <bdelacre...@apache.org> > To: "dev" <dev@community.apache.org> > Cc: d...@fineract.apache.org, "Myrle Krantz" <my...@apache.org>, > mifos-develo...@lists.sourceforge.net, mifos-us...@lists.sourceforge.net, > u...@fineract.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 12:04:27 PM > Subject: Re: Dev vs User Mailing Lists > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:46 PM <r...@gardler.org> wrote: > > > > ...[ASIDE] Realtime communications are not inclusive... > > FWIW there was a good discussion about this recently in Apache Arrow: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8433cda04dc9e1d6bb235e4f29bde30d07c3e5d81177af785af177f2@%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > -- Thanks & Regards Santosh Math *QA Engineer* *Conflux Technologies Pvt Ltd <http://www.confluxtechnologies.com/>* | *Office*: +91-080-41208662 | *Address*: #304, 2nd Floor, 7th Main Road, HRBR Layout 1st Block, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560043 INDIA
