Re: [Mifos-users] Dev vs User Mailing Lists

[jubha mayala <ba...@gmail.com>]

Many users do enjoy the mail lists by browsing answered queries and solved
problems, which in Whatsapp or real time chat is quiet difficult to trace
these kind of things!

Regards,
Jimmy

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 7:08 AM Santosh Math <
santosh@confluxtechnologies.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 12:53 AM Joan Touzet <wo...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info, Bertrand.
>>
>> Mailing lists can be just as exclusive as semi-synchronous environments.
>> They may not work for your community, but they work for ours, and removing
>> them will necessarily disadvantage many contributors.
>>
>> I'm firmly of the opinion that you can't completely ignore real-time
>> communications and expect 100% of everything to occur asynchronously on
>> mailing lists. It explicitly disallows certain types of communication that
>> you can't have in a mailing list. You have the imposition of the formality
>> of a mailing list for newcomers, you have the "being on record" syndrome,
>> you have the "must be subscribed to post" problem (not always), and finally
>> you are ignoring the fact that people will talk real time anyway - so why
>> not make that a venue that you at least have some control/visibility over?
>> In fact, my doctoral research was on how semi-synchronous communications
>> support distance work and learning better than fully asynchronous ones....
>>
>> -Joan
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bertrand Delacretaz" <bd...@apache.org>
>> To: "dev" <de...@community.apache.org>
>> Cc: dev@fineract.apache.org, "Myrle Krantz" <my...@apache.org>,
>> mifos-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, mifos-users@lists.sourceforge.net,
>> user@fineract.apache.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 12:04:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: Dev vs User Mailing Lists
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:46 PM <ro...@gardler.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > ...[ASIDE] Realtime communications are not inclusive...
>>
>> FWIW there was a good discussion about this recently in Apache Arrow:
>>
>>
>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8433cda04dc9e1d6bb235e4f29bde30d07c3e5d81177af785af177f2@%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E
>>
>> -Bertrand
>>
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