On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 8:25 PM Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> said: > > I am proposing that over the course of 2023, starting with the Changes > > process, we move Fedora development conversations from this mailing list to > > the Discourse-based Fedora Discussion. > > I feel this is a case of trading one group of people (email list users) > for a different group of people (web forum users). I have seen this > done multiple times over the years, tried to follow a few times, and > always dropped off fairly rapidly. I'm solidly in the "email list > users" group. > > Web forums far from fit how I use communication tools. For example, I'm > highly keyboard driven and dislike lots of things that force me to use a > mouse. I use mutt to read email, which works great. I have email > filters to organize and save things, I can flag messages for later > review/reference, and more. > > Web forums also seem in my experience to be much more casual > interaction, where people come and go for long stretches of time, much > more than email lists. If I just don't click on your bookmark for a day > or two, it's out of mind quickly and I might not come back for weeks or > months (or ever, which is usually the case). And then even if I do come > back, now I'm pretty much too far behind to ever catch up.
That cuts both ways. If I just don't click on [email filter folder] for a day or two, it's out of mind quickly and I might not come back for weeks or months. And then even if I do come back, now I'm pretty much too far behind to ever catch up. > > I guess you're hoping for enough overlap between email and web forum > users to keep an active developer community... I wish you luck with > that. > > -- > Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Carl George _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
