This issue has been in the problem-solving repo for a long time https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/issues/246 So yes, we need something like this, if only to avoid confusion about what plans/roadmaps there are, what's going to be done or simply to call for elections.
El sáb, 13 mar 2021 a las 8:22, Richard Hainsworth (<rnhainswo...@gmail.com>) escribió: > This is a request to the Raku Coordinating Council that was elected at > the end of last year. > > Please name a channel where community wide plans or announcements are > made. Or may be establish one. > > I found out yesterday by the intervention of a regular participant in > the community that a new documentation website is being worked on. > > I joined a conversation on the raku-dev IRC and discovered that the > plans are quite far established. Since I have been working full-time for > three months on a project that could (not should!!) serve as the > infra-structure of a new site, I was really quite surprised and I am > sure many of you will understand it was jarring. > > I follow all the conversations on this email list. I have found it very > difficult (due to my own technical incompetence relating to github) to > set up my github preferences to get regular notification about issues. I > have also found that the IRC chats are streams of consciousness that are > difficult for me to manage. > > It seems however, that it is my fault that I was taken by surprise by > the news of a different documentation website and that I should have > been following all the issues on the documentation repo or the problem > solving repo. > > It *IS* reasonable for Raku developers and community organisers to make > it the responsibility of a participant to follow conversations, but I > would suggest that the current scattering of conversations, on the IRC > chat, various github repositories, this email list, is not *optimal* for > the development of a coherent Raku community. It is also - I would > suggest - a waste of human resources if the same objectives are pursued > by multiple enthusiasts without any coordination or communication. > > If the Raku Council were to designate some channel, whether its an email > list, an IRC chat, or a github repo, or maybe a discord or slack or > other channel as the main community resource, then I would make sure I > could read all the messages there and stay in touch with what is happening. > > Hence my request to the Raku council to consider improving communication > between developers and the wider Raku community. > > Regards > > Richard Hainsworth > > aka finanalyst > > > -- JJ
