On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Stephen Belanger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The node community is huge. If everyone just communicated via the mailing
> list, it'd be an unfollowable firehose of noise.
>
At the risk of belabouring the point:
I somewhat agree, but then again, mailing lists are particularly well-suited
for this sort of firehose: email buffers up messages nicely (unlike IRC) when
one is not online, it has sophisticated desktop clients providing capabilities
to filter, sort, and otherwise manage messages; email is threaded (or
threadable) so one can somewhat easily opt out of a conversation that is not of
interest.
I do not think or claim mailing lists can be a catchall… IRC, etc, work great
for instant/real-time communication, which is a necessary component of such
projects. Bug reports (oops sorry Issue reports :-)) are a great way to capture
and act on that sort of information. So on.
I think perhaps Ryan’s point(*) (and I guess mine as well!) is that there is
probably a better middle ground between fire-hosing everything to the mailing
list and its current function as a sporadic newbie Q/A forum (<— which is a
great function and is not being disparaged). It would be nice if some vested
party had posted a note here saying “Hey, we started an effort called
node-forward, more info at: …” or “Learn about the community fork of NodeJS,
IoJS, at: …”, etc. Maybe such posts were made and I missed them, so apologies
if so.
I’ll try to keep this my last post on this matter, especially since I am sort
of arguing against nobody. It’s not like anyone or group in particular is
hiding information from me. Maybe I am arguing against the Second Law of
Thermodynamics? :-) (<— not a serious Physics reference).
—ravi
(*) not trying to speak for him.
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