[Tagging] Consensus switching away from mailinglists? Was: Time to split the list?

[Florian Lohoff]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 11:40:20AM +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> With that in mind I think it would be a shame to rework this list only
> a few months before we have a better alternative available. I don't
> have a view (and I don't think OSMF has taken a view) on what happens
> to individual lists after Discourse is made available. If anyone
> really does want to have the discussion about which platform is best,
> I'd suggest talk@ is a better venue for that discussion than tagging at .

Is there a general consensus amongst the users to drop mailinglists per
se and switch to web based discussion forms?

I havent seen ANY discussions about this. For myself i am more used to
mailinglists as these are a "push" technology whereas web based
discussions are more of "pull" based technologies.

And i do follow mailinglists like linux-kernel which are by far the
mailinglists with the most traffic. 


And i dont think splitting comunitys over and over again into the
different communication channels is a good thing to do. By now we
have a lot of telegram channels, we have the forum, mailinglists, irc
channels, and slack channels.

For me adding discourse is like the XKCD about adding another standard.

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                                     f at zz.de
  Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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