This and the culture thread seem quite linked in my mind. I don't have time for the more detailed response I want to write just now, but IMO what is most important (and lacking right now) is a centralized place that fits _all_ needs of discussion of critical and less critical issues. Often a proposal is very important to a few people and then the importance of it wanes for many others. Sometimes the best way to make sure those important people hear it is to post it to the ML, other times it's IRC and still other times (when looking for more broader community support) it is the forums or even asking users who frequent the multiplayer server. It seems that ideas are getting posted to one or more of these places and the discussion is often fragmented and based on who replies in which medium. I can elaborate on what I mean later if it's not making sense to anyone.
I would be strongly in favor of centralizing major development topics to ONE forum/ML/blog/whatever. Obviously IRC will still be used a lot and is a good medium for many things, but anything that is too large to address via IRC should go to one source that anyone who cares about Wesnoth can follow (issue which require privacy probably do need something other than IRC on occasion... I guess that would be an exception). Maybe a devblog is still a good idea to give users and developers a one-click place to follow major development issues, but I would not expect adding a new communications medium while KEEPING all of the current media to ultimately help with communication among the development community. Personally, I see real advantages to the forums or to a blog structure (if it was robust enough to handle longer discussions in the comments well). I think email is hard to respond to, and it becomes very hard to make coherent points via email after many back and forth quoting takes place. It is also terrible (IMO) for any new developers to wade through looking for prior information on a topic that has been discussed at length. I guess email has other advantages but I dislike it in general so maybe I'm biased. ;) Thank you Ivanovic for bringing forth this and related topics in a thoughtful manner. Regards, George (happygrue/Wintermute) On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 20:53:33 -0300, > > "Ignacio R. Morelle" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I absolutely abhor using emails to communicate with people, and I prefer >> to >> use IRC unless I need to ensure my message persists over time -- in that >> case >> I'd rather use a bug tracker, forum board, or mailing list (in that order) >> than IRC. >> > > Fedora is looking at using Hyperkitty for discussions. It is supposed to > be a combination of mailing list and forum. It isn't actually in use yet, > but there is some initial planning discussion for getting it deployed going > on. This might be something to keep an eye on and take a look at once it is > deployed for Fedora. > > You can get more information starting at: https://fedorahosted.org/ > hyperkitty/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >
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