On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 15:39 -0500, Carl George wrote: > As Matthew stated, Ben has measured it and fewer people are > participating on the mailing list over time. We are already leaving > out many contributors. This is an interpretation, but are we sure we are missing them because the mailing list is uninviting, and not just because the pool of interested people is shrinking? > Those conversations are largely moving to > issue trackers, which are also not perfect but are clearly more > appealing than email for many people. Issue trackers are a pretty good way to deal with issues, we should have a better issue tracker that makes those conversations better, not discourage them to make everything flow in non-descript mailing lists or forums... > Discourse has the potential to > be a more attractive alternative than both email and issue trackers. And less attractive to people that work better with mailing lists and issue trackers... > To me this seems like a solid strategy for reversing the trend and > getting more people participating in development discussions. I really dislike this fixation on numbers. We need higher quality and we need to discuss what is really needed. Numbers shouldn't be priority number one, unless there are other underlying issues. Simo. -- Simo Sorce RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
