On 2012-05-19, at 13:32 , anatoly techtonik wrote: > Hi, > > It really bugs me to use Mailman workflow for discussions in 2012. > Why a WEB-SIG uses non-web technology for communicating anyway?
Because it works, it works well, and it's a standard communication tool in and around Python? Why "fix" something which is not broken in any way, shape or form? > What do you think about entry barrier for new people to this list? That it's a good thing, especially for a list as low-traffic and involved as WEB-SIG. > Do you know that you can't send a message without subscribing? How is that a problem? > So, a couple of rhetorical questions. > What does people here feel about 'eating your own dogfood approach'? That it does not apply, web-sig is not about creating a forum. Unless you're talking about POST-ing directly via CURL, of course. But I'm pretty sure that's not the case. > Would you like to see an alternative and care a bit more inclusive? Personally, no. I'm just fine with web-sig's once-in-a-blue-moon message nicely landing in my inbox. > I know that it all boils down to the "free time" and "volunteering", > but at least we could have an actual Roadmap. There's no point to a roadmap, if you think you can build a better solution do it, then propose it. > I am asking, because I've lost the --[cut]-- reply to my mail (sent > about a week ago) inside of innards of me automatic mail filtering > software. Not sure how it's a Mailman problem if your filters are broken. > Clearly, with forum it wouldn't happen. That's debatable, and forums have a number of other issues. It's hard to impossible (depending on the forum software) to consume them asynchronously for instance, or to quickly see what you haven't looked at yet; composition usually is absolutely dreadful and boxes people in an in-browser workflow, it's also much harder to synchronize across devices (the forum software has to support read/unread statuses extremely well and at the comment level, I only know of a single forum software reliable in that respect and it's *not* free. It also isn't in Python and doesn't — as far as I know – offer a mail-based gateway). _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
