Hi, Each tool has its pluses and minuses and we use a variety of them: - Mailing list: may be the most widely used tool. The problem I see with it is that it mixes everything: small requests, long discussions, policies, technicalities, etc... Other FLOSS projects use a variety of lists, breaking things in categories (Mozilla for instance). It tends to become another kind of mess with cross posting. Yes, Gmail rocks and threaded discussions a god send but still... - wiki: it's one we underuse. The problem is that it needs a lot of wiki gardening and things can simply die there with no clear resolution. - IW meetings: we have our weekly Hippo meeting and I truly encourage folks to come. It's my favorite comm tool personally as it's a dedicated moment and we have full attention of everyone. Should we do more of this? - IRC: great for informal and quick discussions but *highly* distracting. I sometime choose not to be available so I can focus on work. - JIRA: great for focused technical discussions on features and bugs. The good thing is that one can manage something toward a resolution (as opposed to wiki) and redirect to other teams, link to other issues, etc... Yes, I like the JIRA despite everything. It's not appropriate for general discussions though. - Forum: there is actually one for Open Source ( https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/forums/open-source). I know that some folks at LL prefers this at it allows to create topics and sub threads more easily. I went there today and posted in some discussions. I think it's something we should use for specific discussions that would hijack the mailing list but are not mature for JIRA yet. Thoughts?
Cheers, - Merov
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