I prefer the mailing list because it pushes new concepts to me. Git and such requires that I work harder to get the information. Most of the Apache mailing lists have a high signal to noise ratio. And even the signals I am not interested in don't take that long to dispose of.
Claude On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > over at the Apache Commons Project, we have a long discussion about our > mailing lists. Are they to noisy? Should they be splitted up into sublists? > Should individual components go TLP? > IMHO Ben McCann summed up the core problem pretty well [1]. Mailing lists > are simply a outdated tool from the 90s. They can not compete with tools > like github/gitlab that integrate the code with the possibility to do code > reviews, disucssions and bugtracking. > > Now I'm curious: Does anybody here really like the use of mailing lists? Or > do we all simply go through the struggle of setting up filters etc. just > because this is the way it has always been? > > Regards, > Benedikt > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/iizay3mmf2msvaf2 > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter > -- I like: Like Like - The likeliest place on the web <http://like-like.xenei.com> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
