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

[Greg Troxel]

Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> writes:

> 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?

Absolutely not.  Mailinglists allow efficient interaction with lcoal
sorting and adjusting, and web-based stuff causes repeititve stress
injuries from endless clicking and one-at-time slowness.

> 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. 

Agreed.

> 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.

What would be good is to add something that is open source for
forum-like, and remove all other forums.

And then add matrix, which is open protocol, open source, and federated,
bridge IRC into it, and stop using slack and telegram.

Then we'd have mail, forum, chat, only 3 places, and none of them
defective by being controlled by some company, proprietary software,
user agreements, etc.

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