Hi Kyle, On 05/01/2021 17:46, Kyle Rose wrote:
Again, no one in any WG is required to interact with GitHub to contribute.
I don't think the above is true in practice, at least in some cases. In one case where I'm implementing a draft I've found the github issue discussion effectively excludes me from really being part of the discussion. Github issue discussions do work fine for many people, and could work fine for me some other time (e.g. if I and others involved were in similar TZs and online at similar times), but my experience is that even with the best will in the world, the split-discussion or exclusionary effect PHB complained of can and does happen. I don't think this is only because the github->mail tooling is worse than useless (for Rich: few mins ago, having been offline for an hour or two, I got 40 mails for one repo to which I'm subscribed;-), I think there are problems with timezones too (hence this mail). I don't have a good solution for that. Equally, I'm not asking that we stop with git or github - I just think we need to do more work to better take into account that the github issue discussion workflow is not everyone's workflow. Cheers, S.
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