My $0.02 as one who lurks on the mailing lists: Chat programs, whether it be Slack or Discord or Rocket.Chat or Mattermost or whatever, are inherently bad at transparency, which is paramount to open source. They’re difficult to search, do not provide an easy means to browse through the history, and they almost always require an account to access the history. Mailing lists, on the other hand, provide search, archival browsing, and all discussions can be made public.
I think chat is great for ad hoc discussions and meetings, but when it’s time to make any decisions, everything (including ideas discussed in chat) needs to move to a medium that can support transparency and openness. Right now, that’s mailing lists. Cheers, Ben > On Nov 12, 2020, at 04:01, Asmir Mustafic <goe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > This is my personal opinion, and not as secretary. > > I understand that the mailing list might be not the ideal, Slack might bring > more people to talk, but the fact that after some time/messages you lose the > history of the conversations is a no go. > It should be always possible to track the history of a decision. > > I'm not familiar with discord, does it have the same issue? > > > Asmir > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 18:19, Zachary Quintana <zach.quint...@gmail.com > <mailto:zach.quint...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I'm new to this project, so go easy please. I searched through the group > history and I saw that back in 2016 someone proposed moving the the group > discourse to one of those chat apps as the primary tool. I can see why that > might not be the best idea. That said, I'd to see what anyone here thinks of > moving from IRC to one those. It certainly would be much easier than trying > to use IRC. Also it seems like the IRC chat is largely dead. No one seems to > be active on that server. As an alternative would the community here consider > opening a slack/discord/gitter chat as an alternative to IRC? Either way. I > think you could expect to see a lot more participation if you were using one > of those. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/5968cf0b-90bd-4803-9b34-e173738f3c59n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/5968cf0b-90bd-4803-9b34-e173738f3c59n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/CAAx0f1tWQVvefRyA88rnEOPP60Rpu3w3uXs%2Bz%2BUMMzkjenpFhw%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/CAAx0f1tWQVvefRyA88rnEOPP60Rpu3w3uXs%2Bz%2BUMMzkjenpFhw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/5E358856-F1C9-43D5-8C2E-490CEDFCB0B2%40benramsey.com.
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