Am 04.04.20 um 20:20 schrieb bill-auger:> i would characterize the plan more as: > "lowering the barrier-to-entry" than That it's a more convenient description of my motivation and I'm adopting it.
Thanks for you're insights. I'm aware of the widespread of mailing-list based remote development in the free software community including the flagship projects, like Linux. My understanding of appropriate doesn't mean that I think that it's impossible to develop software with mailing lists only. I also experienced that > many people consider mailing lists alone, to be completely adequate for remote collaboration and software development However, I see this as a problem, not as a reasonable justification of the current situation. I causes an immense loss of possible contributions to free software as well as time. You're making some good points about acceptance of new tools and popularity, but they apply generically to everything we can think of. I agree absolutely that doing something for the sake of keeping up with the times only has any value if one is referring to an improvement without downsides by this. Important is the value of generic workflows. Nevertheless, I'd like to stress that most features of web-platform-based development can't be achieved by mailing-list, e.g. basic aspects as simple as keeping a focus on your personal involvement or tracking duplicates (Debian has a way, but it's far from one click). People expect these features because they great. They know how email works (not as well as a Linux contributor, but they understand the concept) and see that the workflows can't be built with a mailing list. Again, that doesn't mean that there's a logical contradiction in software development taking place only on mailing lists. Anyway, if more time needs to pass for discussion inside FSF/GNU, then so be it. I don't want to be a part of it any more than I am already with the post. I'm offering my support to test the result and contribute to the rollout. Best regards Kalle
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