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Re: Bits from DPL / Feedback on attracting newcomers



Hello,

On Wed 11 Dec 2024 at 11:00pm GMT, Richard Lewis wrote:

> Gard Spreemann <gspr@nonempty.org> writes:
>
>> While I personally think e-mail-based workflows can be quite nice, the
>> BTS' asynchronous nature did cause me a lot of extra pointless work
>> when I was an outsider attempting to learn the ropes. Being not 100%
>> confident with the system, I way too often found myself waiting
>> minutes – as much as 10 or 15 – for replies to simple operations.
>
> agree with this. Also the noisy reply to every message is pretty
> unhelpful - even gmail cant work out what is being acknowledged

(gmail's threading support is famously simplistic)

-- 
Sean Whitton

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