Matthew, This has been a convention on the list for a long time. We have over 700 subscribers who stay on the list to keep involved in the activities of the community. We have frequent complaints about chatty threads from our subscribers, so the GitHub issues are a compromise to allow the conversation to continue while keeping the list traffic manageable for most.
Regards, --- Jonah Duckles Software Carpentry, Executive Director http://software-carpentry.org From: Matthew Brett <[email protected]> Reply: Matthew Brett <[email protected]> Date: May 5, 2016 at 10:20:16 AM To: Jonah Duckles <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Word and PowerPoint "all wrong"? Hi, On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Jonah Duckles <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > To keep traffic down on the list, please move discussion of Word/PowerPoint > etc to this GitHub issue: > https://github.com/swcarpentry/website/issues/371 Is there a policy as to when to move discussion from the mailing to an issue? I can see that this might be a good idea if there are only a few people interested in the topic, or it is about some specific policy change where the issue can be resolved. But in this case, the discussion seems general, and to go to the heart of the SWC mission. It's difficult to imagine a specific resolution. Best, Matthew
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