We will need a platform that live near the code (repo). Contextual switching is expensive for every developers especially lengthy discussions could have save us man-hours.
On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Tino Heth via swift-evolution < [email protected]> wrote: > I have not enough experience with all the possible alternatives to give a > vote for a specific system, but the mail-approach can be very tedious, and > there are several things that a just not possible or very clumsy: > - You can't edit a message that has been send > - Tagging capabilities are very limited (no public tags…) > - Searching & linking… (quite sure this has been mentioned extensively ;-) > - Mail.app splits topics in strange ways, so it is very hard to follow > discussions > > Sending a message is the only way of interaction, but imho it would be > beneficial to have a lightweight alternative to just signal agreement (or > something else) to posts. > Receiving little or no feedback can be frustrating, and I expect there are > many messages that didn't receive the attention they deserved, just because > it is somewhat stupid to write an response that just says "absolutely > right, I have nothing to add here" (feel free to prove me wrong ;-) > > Mailing lists have some benefits as well, but afaics, Discourse can > basically run a list on top of all the discussions, so we wouldn't loose > anything. > > Tino > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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