While discussing secret ballots over on debian-vote, we got a little off
topic and started discussing the value of a mechanism to express
agreement/disagreement with messages in a mailing list thread.
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
Russ> Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> writes:
>> The bit that was supposed to be the conclusion of that was that
>> it might be good if we had some mechanism for collecting opinions
>> related to mailing-list mails/threads that was private, and
>> didn't involve making (often already long) mailing list threads
>> longer in order to express an opinion, but I think that's going
>> OT so should be discussed elsewhere, probably after setting up a
>> prototype.
Russ> For the record, I like this, and in general I think there are
Russ> multiple areas of Debian where we could benefit from being
Russ> able to take a quick pulse of the mood of affected
Russ> contributors without relying solely on what people are willing
Russ> to write in (sometimes contentious) email threads.
Neil did set up a prototype of Discorse a while back. It has good
facilities for this kind of informal polling as well as good facilities
for rearranging threads and that kind of thing. It's a bit different
than our mailing list culture.
If I wanted to run such an informal poll today, I'd set up a salsa issue
for the discussion or at least for the parts where I wanted to get
thumbs up/down to various statements.
I too think that such informal mechanisms would be valuable.
--Sam
