Not that I know the discussion. Sorry from throwing in an argument from the sideline. ;)

What about look into delta Chat [1]?

It is the try to combine Mail with modern chat approach. Just because email has been a good feature it does not mean it can not go with time. Just an idea.

Am 22.02.22 um 23:30 schrieb Jim Jagielski:

On Feb 22, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:

  Very consistently, at least at Red Hat, the white men over 30 agree with my 
perspective and EVERYONE ELSE thinks that more synchronous discussion venues 
are preferable.
Imho the kids from today communicate more asynchroneus then the generation is 30+ is used to. (General speaking, not just the Open Source Group activist point of view)

Maybe because the current generation never needed to worry about the effects of 
synchronous communication over geographical diverse ares, because 
most/many/"all" of the people they collaborate with are in very similar time 
zones. Or maybe its because they are always online.

Let's recall that IRC was a thing the same time that Email was. Heck, back then we had 
IRC, email and NNTP, so it's not like we lacked for communication alternatives. Email 
didn't "win" because it was all we had, but because it was the best suited for 
the requirements we based things around: ease of archival, ease of threading, and async 
friendly. I'll be honest, if NNTP was not such a pain to install and maintain, I bet that 
would have given Email a run for its money.

IMO, baselining a primary communication system that requires either everyone be 
in the same timezone, approximately, or that everyone be online at all hours, 
screams privilege to me. There are huge sets of populations that don't enjoy 
the luxury of having high-bandwidth smart devices with them 24x7 in order to 
engage w/ open source projects. Basically, by doing so, you self-select an 
extremely privileged group and disenfranchise the other 90-95%.
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