On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:32 AM Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> What I didn't go on to say at the time (as it was out of scope for that > topic), but am glad to say now, is that certainly mailing lists (and > newsgroups) have damning deficiencies for organising and tracking issues. > They're also pretty dreadful as a way to capture knowledge -- for all > the reasons you mention, Luis, among others. > > The usual remedy, in my experience, is to combine that or some > alternative discussion medium (e.g., a Web forum) with a different tool > that is more suited to task. That could be something as simple as wiki > pages maintained by a limited group of people. > None of these are bad ideas! But doing that, especially in a timely manner that encourages, rather than discourages, participation, needs volunteers. But this list has had no steady new contributors in ages, and even many dedicated long-term contributors (including both current publicly listed moderators!) have decided that there are more important ways to contribute to the movement. So I did not want to suggest anything that required substantial ongoing time commitments. If OSI can pull skilled moderator/"editor"/community manager volunteer time out of the hat, instead or as well as with a tool switch, great. Luis
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