Just saw a recent article that somewhat is related to this topic:
(in the spirit of "email vs web")

Leaving python-dev behind https://lwn.net/Articles/901744/

Quotes:

Discourse is an open-source web forum project that says it aims to
"reimagine what a modern Internet discussion forum should be today,
in a world of ubiquitous smartphones, tablets, Facebook, and Twitter"

That led to some predictable grumbling about Discourse and the problems
with following a web-based forum in comparison to a mailing list. That
divide comes up whenever changes of this sort are announced or
discussed, but newer developers generally seem to be uninterested in
learning the "joys" of participating on mailing lists. In part, that is
because the relevance of email as a communication mechanism has fallen
almost completely off the radar for many.

While there were posts with the usual negative opinions of web forums
versus email, they were fairly muted. To an extent, it would seem that
there is a generational change going on in the Python community; the
older developers are either adapting, perhaps via mailing-list mode, or
kind of just bowing out.

For those of us who cut our teeth on threaded, text-only, bottom-posted
discussions, it is completely mind-boggling that Kids These Days (tm) do
not see the advantages of such ... discourse—but that seems to be the
way of things.

- Qian

On 7/23/22 09:17, Qian Yun wrote:
There were several times that GitHub does not display email replies
from Waldek.  This is already causing headaches for me and I think
this situation is bad for the collaboration of the FriCAS project.

First, I understand that, for privacy reasons or other reasons,
an email based workflow can be preferred over a web based one.

I can think of 2 solutions right now:

1. It seems that Waldek is using one email account for googlegroups
and another email account for GitHub replies.  I guess you are
managing the 2 email accounts in a single email client locally.
If so,  I wonder if it is possible/convenient to send the reply
to googlegroups/GitHub issues through 2 email accounts simultaneously.

2. Setup some GitHub Actions script to forward every GitHub issue
comments to fricas-devel.  Then when the issue is resolved, we can
sync the status back to GitHub.

- Qian


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