I personally don't have a problem with long threads on the mailing list. If I see lots of messages with the same subject header popping up (like today with "Word and PowerPoint "all wrong"?"), I can just ignore those if I'm not interested in that discussion (anymore). Moving long threads to GitHub means having to check two different places, which I wouldn't find ideal. Matthew's suggestion of different lists, e.g. an "announce" list and a "discuss" list, makes more sense to me.
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Jonah Duckles > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > It sounds like there may be different kinds of subscribers, some of > whom want to see lots of healthy debate, and some of whom want to get > occasional announcements. Maybe that should be different lists? > > The problem with moving the long threads off the list is that you run > the risk of stifling the debate by reducing the number of > participants, or by implying that it may not be of general interest. > > Best, > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > -- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838 EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk
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