Isn’t that perhaps the way it has worked out in this case? I agree with the base premise of what you are saying, but wondering how it would bubble up in a different way. It really started off with us discussing the way some code works, and then led to some other conversations, and now has led here.
Thanks, Wade > On Feb 27, 2017, at 11:02, Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:33 PM, someone wrote: >> ...(he) and I have been having some DM discussions offline on Slack as an >> example, and we have been >> discussing what it means to have modules... > > It would be great to bring such discussions here as soon as they > become "important". > > My (own, unwritten) rule in Apache projects is to move things to the > dev list as soon as they go beyond the level of a coffee machine > discussion - and when they do, restart the discussions here stating > what happened at the coffee machine. > > Slack is of course quicker than email and probably better for > brainstorming, so I suppose a combination is best...but the benefits > of having a Single Place Where Important Things happen (in > asynchronous mode) are huge when it comes to long-lived projects like > NetBeans. > > -Bertrand (with my incubation mentor hat on)
