Obviously those of us not on these private threads have no idea this is going on. (Smile) Agreed it's a problem, and it would be good to clarify this somewhere. CoC seems reasonable.
> On Oct 9, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Misty Stanley-Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are a few people who routinely email me privately about non-personal > matters where I'm not the only one with the answer. In many cases I reply, > adding dev@ to the CC, and I've also asked the people to use the mailing > lists instead of emailing me privately, but the message has obviously not > gotten through. I'm not just being fussy and I know I'm not the only one. > Taking it off-list has consequences: > > - information is siloed / single points of failure > - if I'm on vacation or otherwise not immediately available, you're blocked > from getting the thing done > - others lose out on the chance to contribute to the community > - decisions made via private email actually violate our community standards, > except in some very specific instances such as software security bugs > - it's annoying and exclusionary > - it can be intimidating > - it can lead to inadvertently or unintentionally taking credit for someone > else's work > > I'd like to propose that we add something to the code of conduct to > discourage using private email threads in the hbase community except for > social or personal conversations. Thoughts? > >
