Joyent is already unhappy about all this. An "official" thread on here would probably not be well received, and iojs is trying really hard not to get on Joyent's bad side. On Dec 9, 2014 12:12 PM, "Dick Hardt" <[email protected]> wrote:
> +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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CAD9ie-u5N5fhenR4A5qcrJaG_O_0i8uP8UpxCU_DCMZk09QSmw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > 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/CABcFeBUmJMDP_GwiGQd7Ex_vtT9XiDz8OQnHLmkjHCiTZo2KzA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
