On Dec 9, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Aria Stewart wrote:

> On 9 Dec 2014, at 04:26, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> How can there be "a broad community effort", how can there be "open 
>> collaboration", how can the "community step in and effectively solve the 
>> problems" if the existence of these efforts is not announced to the 
>> community--this community right here on this discussion group? I feel very 
>> out of the loop reading a thread titled "node.js and io.js reconciliation" 
>> when previously I was not aware of the existence of io.js nor the issues 
>> that prompted its creation.
> 
> Because the community around node is much, much bigger than this mailing 
> list. It's conferences and events, twitter conversations and blog posts all 
> over the web. It's IRC conversations chat on Gitter and It's conversations on 
> Reddit and Stack Overflow. Not everything happens here!

While I'm sure all of those are valuable in their own way, the mailing list is 
the only medium that delivers information to my mailbox without me having to go 
out and look for it.

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