+1 that significant events such as forking would have a post on this mail list.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:57 AM, // ravi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > New group rules: > https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md > Old group rules: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/5B692186-0E9D-4A73-B52C-3D1912E02793%40g8o.net > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CAD9ie-u5N5fhenR4A5qcrJaG_O_0i8uP8UpxCU_DCMZk09QSmw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
