Hi, > So I discussed this with Ryan Skraba and as far as my understanding is that > it is possible to do discussions outside of the [DISCUSS] mailing list and > there are other Apache projects that do this.
It is often said that, If it didn’t happen on the mailing list, then it didn’t happen. Please do not have discussions outside of the mailing list. There are many good reasons for this, but one of the most important is that conversations are archived and searchable on ASF hardware. It also means that people who are not working full time on the project or work in a different time zone can also be involved. > It would be to get clarification from Apache on this, because the Apache > foundation has changed over time and while previously there was hard rules it > appears that they have been relaxed. We already have an example of this with > JIRA. There are only a few hard rules at Apache. There is a lot of best practice and guidelines to follow. You can do things differently if you have a good reason for doing something different. With GitHub, JIRA and the like, it is generally set up so that everything is sent to a mailing list, so conversations are archived and searchable. > So if there is a hard rule about using the mailing list then of course we > have to comply (i.e. voting for a release and a PIP) but if there is a > genuine choice between the mailing list and GitHub native solutions I would > suspect that it will almost always fall to GitHub. Using mailing lists is one of those hard rules, but that doesn’t stop you from also using GitHub. Do be aware that some people will not, for various reasons, want to have a Github account. Kind Regards, Justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
