I concur with ais523's thoughts, but would appreciate if e could describe the reasoning for his dislike of GitHub.
---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 12:53 +0000, comex wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 1:28 PM Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> > > wrote: > > > Serious, strong objection to this. If I have to have a Github > > > account to play, I'll just deregister. > > > > If your reason for avoiding GitHub is what I think it is, IMHO it’s > > misguided… > > > > ..but no worries, that’s just my opinion. If this passes and > > assuming you > > don’t change your mind, I can just set up a different wiki. > > To be clear, although I dislike Github in particular, I'm also very > wary of anything that requires the use of a website external to the > mailing lists to be able to play. > > One of the huge strengths of Agora is that its entire history can be > deduced from the weekly/monthly office reports, making it easy to > determine facts about past gamestates; and all actions also go via the > lists, so you can interpolate the gamestate in between, as well. > > I'm in favour of more office automation but I'd rather it be done via > parsing messages sent to the lists, rather than requiring actions to be > entered externally. > > -- > ais523 >
