[Scale-planning] Discussions on GH opened

[David Lang]

unless forums have a 'act like email' mode, I don't use them. I can't be 
bothered to check dozens of websites continually for new posts. And one0way 
email notification of new activity is a far distant second.

David Lang

  On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Phil Dibowitz wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:23:42 -0700
> From: Phil Dibowitz <phil at ipom.com>
> Reply-To: SCALE Planning List <scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org>
> To: scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org
> Subject: Re: [Scale-planning] Discussions on GH opened
> 
> Have you looked at the Discussions feature of GH? It's a full featured 
> forum, not a discussion on a repo.
>
> On 8/10/22 16:20, David Lang wrote:
>> having two different channels for communications guarantees that people 
>> will miss discussions happening on the other channel.
>> 
>> comments in a doc or on a repo are appropriate for discussing specific 
>> changes, but not mroe general discussions IMHO
>> 
>> David Lang
>> 
>> On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:17:47 -0700
>>> From: Phil Dibowitz <phil at ipom.com>
>>> Reply-To: SCALE Planning List <scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org>
>>> To: scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Scale-planning] Discussions on GH opened
>>>
>>> Moving this back to -planning. There's no secrets here.
>>>
>>> Perhaps people have opinions on how they'd prefer to interact. We 
>>> should get input (if any) from the actual people on this list before 
>>> deciding one path is better than the other, or that we need 1 vs 2 or 
>>> 2 vs 1.
>>>
>>> On 8/10/22 13:35, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
>>>> I believe if the repo is starred you will get notifications, but I 
>>>> may be wrong.
>>>>
>>>> As it stands we get little-to-no-engagement on the mailing list. If 
>>>> we want engagement, we should probably provide *more* ways to engage, 
>>>> not less.
>>>>
>>>> That said, I don't mind if we want to kill the list. Since we're 
>>>> moving docs to the GH wiki, moving discussions there just centralizes 
>>>> stuff.
>>>>
>>>> On 8/10/22 13:28, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
>>>>> having yet another place to check for a group of volunteers who are 
>>>>> already busy is not a good idea.
>>>>> If we're moving to github discussions then we should kill the 
>>>>> mailing list.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 4:25 PM Phil Dibowitz <phil at ipom.com 
>>>>> <mailto:phil at ipom.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Mailing lists are not-as-popular these days, so I've gone ahead and
>>>>>     enabled the 'discussions' tab in the SCALE-Planning GH repo:
>>>>>
>>>>>     https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/SCALE-Planning/discussions
>>>>>     <https://github.com/socallinuxexpo/SCALE-Planning/discussions>
>>>>>
>>>>>     Feel free to engage there!
>>>>>
>>>>>     --     Phil Dibowitz phil at ipom.com <mailto:phil at ipom.com>
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>>>>>
>>>>>     "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't
>>>>>        matter and those who matter don't mind."
>>>>>        - Dr. Seuss
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