Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?
On Wed, 21 May 2025 22:25:36 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
wrote:
>> I would significantly reduce my enjoyment of Debian if we were to move
>> away from mailing lists and the BTS. Surely the BTS could be a bit
>> more friendly in its advanced features, but new contibutors can simply
>> ignore those, and a motivated person mght build a nice web interface
>> for those.
>>
>> I would like to keep the BTS with its opportunity to pull up a
>> complicated bug report in my mail client WITH FULL THREADING.
>
>Please don't make strawman arguments. If you read the links I provided
>and the how Guix folks summarized their needs, you can see that
>maintaining the e-mail capabilities was one of their main
>requirements.
I have seen Debian discuss introducing Discourse to replace the
mailing lists while claiming this "keeps the feeling of a mailing
list". That is so utterly false...
Listen. You're entitled to suggest new tools. I am entitled to say
that the tools we have are just fine. That's the way it is.
Greetings
Marc
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