Hi all,
Quoting Greg Wilson <[email protected]> on Fri, 6 May
2016 12:01:51 -0400:
Hi Matthew; thanks for your mail. Mailman (our mailing list
manager) doesn't support ad hoc sub-lists, so when we've got a
thread that a subset of subscribers are likely to want to discuss at
length, we push it to a GitHub issue: it keeps the discussion public
but opt-in (GitHub will auto-notify anyone who's previously
commented on the thread and/or anyone who chooses to subscribe),
while reducing traffic on the list for people who *aren't*
interested in the details. If and when there's a resolution to
forward to the Steering Committee, a poll, or a concrete proposal
(e.g., changing the tools we use for building lessons), someone can
bring a short summary back to the main list. It's not perfect, but
it's worked pretty well so far.
While this process is known to us that have been on the list for a
while, for newcomers it can seem rather abrupt. One of my colleagues,
who was not aware of this process, interpreted it as "discussion over".
In ye olde days of Usenet newsgroups, many would have a monthly e-mail
about the list, what was on and off topic, how they were moderated
etc. It might be worth setting up an automated e-mail once a month to
this list with a summary of processes such as when/why things are
moved to GitHub, the revised code of conduct etc (or, at least, a link
to page).
cheers,
mike
Thanks,
Greg
p.s. if anyone wants to *make* it perfect (or at least better), a
script to take a selected thread from the Mailman archive and
re-post messages in order as comments on a GitHub issue would be
very useful - so much so that I will personally send a Software
Carpentry t-shirt to whoever builds it. For obvious reasons,
though, please reply to me directly, rather than to this list :-)
On 2016-05-06 11:47 AM, Matthew Brett wrote:
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Greg Wilson
<[email protected]> wrote:
+1
I would ask that this discussion be moved to github.
thank you,
--titus
Why do you think the discussion should be moved to github? It's
certainly a tough discussion, but it seems like a legitimate one to
have on the discussion mailing list.
Best,
Matthew
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