> On 6 Jan 2021, at 10:57 am, John C Klensin <john@xxxxxxx> wrote: ... > I suggest that we cross some very unfortunate boundary when what > appears on a mailing list is equivalent to "anyone who does not > agree with the reasoning and conclusions reached in XYZ needed > to speak up". In that regard, it makes no difference whether > "XYZ" is github, "our last interim meeting in a timezone that > was inconvenient for some readers", or something else -- the > effect is exclusionary and makes claims of consensus far more > dubious. I think the same could be said about decisions that are made on obscure mailing lists -- many developers refuse to subscribe to them now because of their awful usability problems. -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
