Until g.d.o gets actually useful email notifications, I am against this.
Right now, g.d.o is useless to me, because the notifications system has
regressed.
(All we really need is good titling and threaded support, for my
purposes. it doesn't need to *respond* to email, I'm perfectly ok with
clicking a link to reply).
Shai Gluskin wrote:
I'm pulling this out as a separate thread...
Jenniver wrote,
Shai Gluskin wrote:
3. *Move dev list to g.d.o.* [...]
I can sympathize with your desire to have a more searchable output for
this list, on-line forums such as g.d.o are a huge barrier to
participation compared to email lists.
So if this list is moved to g.d.o and we want it to still be a useful
list with immediate feedback and lots of participants, we would also
need to provide a way for people to participate fully via email (i.e.
make it so it looks and acts just like an email list). In which case,
the threads will look/act/search like email, and I don't think we will
have solved anything.
--Jennifer
My issue with the search results at
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development is not the formatting;
it's the content. Searching on terms like "module development" the top
results are from March. I mean, there really is something wrong.
Given the delays in upgrading to the new d.o. design, I'm not sure where
things stand. But I know there were definitely discussions about
tweaking the notifications system and also adding Mail Comment (formerly
Mail2Web): http://drupal.org/node/634074. Mail Comment would allow for
replicating list serve functionality for folks who don't want to go to
g.d.o. And again... I don't care about the formatting; I want the
transparency, the integration with d.o. web sites, it running on Drupal,
and also the much more personal and community feel you get at g.d.o with
user pics/profiles etc. With Mail Comment we can have the push of the
list serve but the better functionality of g.d.o.
Shai
