On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 13:02 -0800, Kevin Cantu wrote: > It's easy to set up discuss to email you all the time, too: give it a > try.
That still loses you the thread structure of email discussion. I also can't start threads via the mail interface, and the mail interface regularly eats whole replies by people who are optimistic enough to to use it like nmatsakis. People can also edit their posts to append more information and I don't believe the mail interface would inform me of that. Also the settings page in Discourse invariably says " We'll only email you if we haven't seen you in the last 10 minutes and you haven't read the thing we're emailing you about. " which doesn't give me much confidence that I'm not somehow missing messages after following links on irc or wherever. > > It had gotten pretty clear that having a catch-all mailing list wasn't > going to scale. It also doesn't scale for people to come to terms with a separate web based discussion forum for each project they keep up with or contribute to. Many projects use multiple mailing lists, it's not clear to me why that doesn't address the rust team's requirements. -ben > > Kevin > > On Dec 29, 2014 10:57 AM, "Dmitry Romanov" <[email protected]> > wrote: > I agree on almost every word. I have well sorted and with love > configured mail, where I track several Libre projects. Now it > is interesting to track rust questions. But dropping maillist > most probably means I will not participate any more. > > I could add, as example, I have very limited Internet > connection on cristmass trip now so the mail on my mobile is > the only reliable way to track what is happening. Think about > this reason too. > > On Dec 29, 2014 7:22 PM, "Paul Nathan" > <[email protected]> wrote: > I have no desire to use Discourse, and nearly > certainly won't sign up for it (I don't even > understand why it came to be). I have never used Rust > discourse besides happening once upon it and reading > the linked thread. > > My membership in mailing lists is neatly sorted and > segregated, easily readable on my mobile devices > without extra signing up or poking at badly designed > websites. Discourse gives me zero advantage for yet > *another* website signup, and probably with less > usability, given my experience of web site development > & design. It's worth noting that every single libre > software project I have any interest in (from the > arcane to the popular) maintains the mailing list as > the primary official channel of communiques. > > > If the Rust admins kill the mailing list, I will > probably drop out of participation (what a loss. ;) ) > and limit participation to lurking reddit's /r/rust (I > don't contribute thoughtful stuff to reddit in part > due to the fact that "mobile website = awful, readers > = ehhh" and occasional IRC questions. > > > I am sure I sound like a crabby crank, but, meh. > > > > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Clark Gaebel > <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a thread about it on... Discourse! > > > http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/is-it-time-to-kill-the-mailing-list/611/36 > > > > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Tomi > Pieviläinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The mailing list is mostly dead BTW. > Consider bringing this up on > > discuss.rust-lang.org instead. > > This is the first time I've heard of > that. I checked that it isn't > even linked on the homepage, but the > mailing list and IRC are. > > Have I missed something, or should the > discourse then be linked > instead of or at least in addition of > the mailing list? > > -- > Tomi Pieviläinen, +358 400 487 504 > A: Because it disrupts the natural way > of thinking. > Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
