Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-06 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 05 Oct 2019 at 10:13PM +01, Samuel Henrique wrote: > I don't understand the argument of it being a social problem, isn't our > own constitution a technical solution to a social problem? Hmm, I think that "social problem" is not what I meant. It's difficult to communicate effective

Re: Discussion tooling

2019-10-06 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2019-10-06 22:02:19 +0100 (+0100), Roger Lynn wrote: [...] > As a non-DD and lurker, personally I like the NNTP interface at > linux.debian.devel, which I believe is provided by Marco d'Itri. [...] Thanks for the reminder! I had forgotten this was even available, and will strongly consider swit

Re: Discussion tooling

2019-10-06 Thread Roger Lynn
On 05/10/19 22:20, Samuel Henrique wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 14:51, Antonio Terceiro wrote: Note that email already has a "tree-like" structure, since forever. You just don't see it if you (ironically) use web application email clients like gmail that decided to not show it. Most console/des

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-05 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2019-10-05 22:13:49 +0100 (+0100), Samuel Henrique wrote: [...] > And the problems with relying on the tree view of email subthreads > have already been exposed here as it depends on people formatting > the subthread in a specific way, which does always happens. [...] Not necessarily. For me at

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-05 Thread Samuel Henrique
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 14:51, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 01:37:58PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Mathias Behrle wrote: > > > > > ...BTW no discussion tool can help in automating > > > separate discussion threads when the topic changes. > >

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 02 Oct 2019 at 11:30AM +02, Mathias Behrle wrote: > first of all it would help a lot to identify when a new subthread is > openend and make this visible in the usual way (like this mail does). It would > increase a lot(!) the readability of Debian lists where this is an > often enco

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2019-10-02 10:51:22 -0300 (-0300), Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 01:37:58PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Mathias Behrle wrote: > > > > > ...BTW no discussion tool can help in automating > > > separate discussion threads when the topic chang

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 01:37:58PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Mathias Behrle wrote: > > > ...BTW no discussion tool can help in automating > > separate discussion threads when the topic changes. > > > > They can, I think reddit and hackernews are good at this. >

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Samuel Henrique writes: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Mathias Behrle wrote: > >> ...BTW no discussion tool can help in automating >> separate discussion threads when the topic changes. >> > > They can, I think reddit and hackernews are good at this. > That's the "tree-like" structure that I men

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Samuel Henrique
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Mathias Behrle wrote: > ...BTW no discussion tool can help in automating > separate discussion threads when the topic changes. > They can, I think reddit and hackernews are good at this. That's the "tree-like" structure that I mentioned in my email. > You will defi

Re: Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 11:30:58AM +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote: > first of all it would help a lot to identify when a new subthread is > openend and make this visible in the usual way (like this mail does). It would > increase a lot(!) the readability of Debian lists where this is an > often encoun

Discussion tooling (was: Bits from the DPL (August 2019))

2019-10-02 Thread Mathias Behrle
* Jeremy Stanley: " Re: Bits from the DPL (August 2019)" (Tue, 1 Oct 2019 20:45:35 +): Hi, first of all it would help a lot to identify when a new subthread is openend and make this visible in the usual way (like this mail does). It would increase a lot(!) the readability of Debian lists wh