Re: Better discussion forum?

["Terence M. Bandoian" <te...@tmbsw.com>]

+1


On 7/31/2018 12:57 PM, Darryl Pogue wrote:
> To expand on this a bit more, annoying as the mailing list might be, I
> think the project would be better for having a more active mailing
> list and not having discussions spread across lists and multiple
> GitHub repos and Slack and JIRA and various Google Docs. I'm
> definitely guilty of adding to that spread of information because it's
> convenient, but it does impose a bit of a barrier for participation.
>
> The idea is that all decisions have to happen on the mailing list,
> because this is the one place that all Cordova devs are supposed to be
> subscribed. This is the one place that everyone can watch to keep on
> top of what's happening in the project.
>
> We've been *terrible* at that over the years, and it's made it hard to
> provide feedback on changes because I didn't know they were happening.
> Roadmaps were discussed in face-to-face meetings or video calls and
> not brought back to the list for review, and it was hard to find out
> what was being worked on short of stumbling upon tasks in JIRA or
> watching peoples' personal GitHub forks.
> I don't say that to put blame on anyone, because they were doing what
> they'd always done and there wasn't (and isn't) a culture of bringing
> things back to the list. But I do say it because I think we can
> improve and I think it's worthwhile to try to use the list as the
> place for discussions so that there's a recorded history of decisions.
>
> I know plaintext email doesn't offer nearly as much in the way of
> formatting, so at the very least it would be good to send a link to
> proposal documents to the list, and ask for feedback to be posted in
> that thread.
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:32 AM Darryl Pogue <dv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apache Software Foundation projects use mailing lists for communication.
>> It is The Apache Way.
>>
>> See http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#communication
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:10 AM Chris Brody <ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I would really love to see a better discussion forum for ideas. I
>>> think the mail list is not so handy for forums with cross-referencing
>>> and cordova-discuss proved to be a failure. npm.community seems to
>>> have nailed it, though it may have been meant to solve another
>>> problem. Any comments?
>>>
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