On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 09:15:37AM +0000, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Dashamir (2022.07.14_08:31:51_+0000) > > But I have seen recently a very long discussion thread in a mailing list, > > with pros and cons about introducing Discourse as an alternative or > > replacement to mailing lists, and the result of the discussion was not > > clear at all (at least I could not understand it). I am also not sure what > > happened with the Discourse initiative, was it finally tried or not. > > That was less of a discussion, and more of someone who is new to our > community making a noise about how we are doing things wrong and should > be doing them differently. I think most people roll their eyes and mark > the thread as read. Many suggestions like this have been discussed > before, many times, without any concrete actions coming out of them. > As the person who was driving the Discourse initiative, I do take slight objection to being described as someone who was new to the community, or characterised as "making a noise". In fact, the reason that things did not progress was due to the massive amount of stop energy at trying to improve our processes. I simply gave up in engaging with Debian rather than trying to push for what I (still) believe will improve engagement with new maintainers. Neil
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